My dad was born in Ottawa Cty, in 1916. He also suffered from lung problems. My grandfather had a lead and zinc mine back in the early 1900s. My dad's name was Lawrence Cunningham. He graduated from Miami H.S in the late 1930's. He then moved to So CA with most of the family. My Uncle Hugh Cunningham died in a mining accident in 7-1928. If anyone has any info on this family, I would really appreciate it. Jeanne -----Original Message----- From: velma j west [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 1:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [{OKOTTAWA}] Picher, Oklahoma Jane, I was born and raised in Picher also. I have lung problems {emphasema}, some of my cousins have problems also. My Dad moved us out od there as soon as he could but the damage was all ready done. He had to make a living and mining was all any of his family knew so that's what he did. Velma On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 03:42:13 -0600 Jane Richards <[email protected]> writes: > I was born in Picher, Ottawa County, Oklahoma. My father, Stewart Ed > LAFFERTY, was born in Indian Territory. For some unknown reason he > and > his father,Charles, went all over the states but always ended back > in > Picher. If anyone has anything on the Lafferty families in Ottawa > County > please send me a copy. > > I wonder how many of our ancestors and we as descendants have come > down > with some kind of lung problem because of the lead and zink mining > in > Ottawa County? Mother is from a large family, and she went on to > have 11 > children, four of which was born in Picher. Out of the 11 children 9 > have > some kind of lung problems 2 of us on oxygen, all of us born during > and > after her years in Picher. I've had three children and 2 of mine > have > lung trouble, my daughter had 3 children the oldest child died at 6 > months, her youngest has lung trouble. > ________________________________________________________________ > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. > > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.