At age five, I remember huddling around a Philco floor model radio with my parents listening to President Roosevelt’s chilling words, “This is a date that will live in infamy.” I knew by the grip of Mother’s hand something terrible had happened. While Japanese diplomats talked peace in Washington their planes bombed Pearl Harbor. Four […]
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When death came knocking at the door of Hanna Coal Company’s No. 10 Mine at Willow Grove, its icy fingers entombed more than seventy men in a matter of seconds at eleven o’clock on Saturday morning, March 16, 1940.
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LITTLE EGYPT LOST WRECKAGE OF HAVACO MINE – JANUARY 15, 1946 McDowell County, West Virginia is the most southern county of the state, and they hold the record for the largest number of explosions in the state. The mining town of Jed, located two miles north of Welch, lost eighty-three men when the mine blew
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At the time of the accident 45 men were inside the mine, however the explosion was confined to only one section. Thirteen men were working in the section that blew, and eleven men were killed Shortly after the explosion, a motorman delivering a trip of empty cars near the site noticed smoke and dust in the haulageway. He immediately notified the outside mine office of his findings, and Superintendent T. L. Lambert, went underground to investigate.
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GRADE FOUR 1946 – 1947 If you can identify any of the students please e-mail me. Row one: teacher: Evelyn Lewis, Donald Hughes, Dolores Riggs, Billy Joe Molnar, Johnnie Fleming, Lowell Reynolds, ?, Riley Fleming, Mary Ellen Hatton Row two: Jerry Vaughn, Ginger McNeely, Bobby Wagner, unidentified, Ruth Ann Lester, Billy Roberts Row three: Joyce
On Wednesday, January 10, 1940, the Pond Creek No. 1 Mine at Bartley, West Virginia owned by Pocohontas Coal Corporation, exploded at exactly 2:30 in the afternoon killing ninety-one men.
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I found this on Melissa Duggins’ Family Tree Page (Sorry, Melissa’s page is no longer online) Thanks Melissa! Sound like anyone YOU know? Untitled They think that I should cook and clean, and be a model wife. I tell them it’s more interesting to study Grandpa’s life. They simply do not understand why I hate
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By Joanna Newman Sidney B. Lawson, MD (March 18, 1867 – Oct. 9, 1953) Dr. Lawson, son of Dr. George W. & Chloe Ann Roberson Lawson, published his autobiography, “50 Years A Mountain-Country Doctor” in 1941. In it, he does not give his birth year but states he began practice at his home area around
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By Joanna Newman “The Family is the Seed From Which All Growth Begins” Beth Mende Conny My Maternal Grandparents Dow & Malinda May Thompson Logan County, West Virginia My Logan County Roots All of my Genealogy Articles and Posts Important Legal Stuff… NOTE: Most information found on these pages are to be used as STARTING
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REV. ARCHIE CONWAY Photo by: Dolores Riggs – 1958 LYBURN MINE FIRE On Sunday morning at seven o’clock on August 14, 1932, four men entered the Croaton Coal Company Mine at Lyburn. The mine was empty, and they were cleaning up slate so Monday’s shift could start on time. At approximately ten o’clock that morning