Shawn The National Welsh American Foundation. Web Site at http://www.wales-usa.org/medal.htm It refers to two memorials to the Avondale disaster. Glen Glen id=259482&brand=IE&search=welsh+society&pg=0&location= --- Shawn Presner <spresner@hotmail.com> wrote: > Thansk to Gayle and Evelyn for the info. Does > anyone know about this > National Welsh American Society? Shawn > > > >From: Gtbaar@aol.com > >Reply-To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com > >To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com > >Subject: Re: [PA-LAC] Washburn St Cemetery > >Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 07:34:00 EDT > > > >In a message dated 6/22/2001 12:20:12 AM Central > Daylight Time, > >evelync@norfolk.infi.net writes: > > > > > > > At 06:58 PM 06/21/2001 -0400, you wrote: > > > >I have a gggf who died in the Avondale Mine > Disaster 1869 in Plymouth. > > > >61 men from Scranton died in the fire and are > buried in Washburn. > > > >occurred. The cemetery was called upon to bury > 61 men in a few days > >time. > > > >Shawn > > > > > > Shawn and List Members: > > > > > > The "History of Scranton Pennsylvania" by David > Craft: et al, contains > >this > > > paragraph as part of the information on the > Avondale disaster: > > > > > > Page 240: > > > > > > "From sixty to seventy of the dead miners were > from Scranton, and on > > > Thursday morning, September 9th, seventy men > began digging graves in the > > > Washbutn Street Cemetery. All the morning the > Delaware, Lackawanna & > > > Western Railroad Company ran trains of flat cars > free between Scranton > >and > > > Plymouth. Business in Scranton was suspended, > and many of the buildings > > > draped in mourning. At 2:00 P.M. the Lackawanna > Iron and Coal Company's > > > gong blew, church bells began to toll, and the > funeral procession left > >the > > > Delaware, Lackawanna &Western depot. In the > first procession there were > > > thirty eight bodies carried in open wagons. The > cemetery was reached at > > > 2:30 and Rev. William Roberts, D.D., delivered > the funeral oration. > >Others > > > were buried at different times during the day, > and on a knoll in > >Washburn > > > Street Cemetery lie forty-nine of the deceased, > many of the graves > >marked > > > with tombstones." > > > > > > Maybe the grave you are looking for is on this > "knoll". > > > >Also, something to keep in mind is that sometimes > these mining families did > >not have the money to put a tombstone to mark the > grave. In the case of my > >great grandfather and his brother, a killed in > British Columbia mining > >accident, they were buried in the same unmarked > grave at The Dickson City > >Primitive Methodist Cemetery. > > > > > >Gayle Thorpe Baar > >Irving, Texas > > > >Researching: Backus, Baker, Bridge, Culver, > Davies, Davis, Easton, Evans, > >Fairbanks, Fisher, Gay, Gibbons, Hall, Harris, > Hughes, Hutton, Ignew, > >Jones, > >Ladburner, Lee, Mackie, Miller, Morrell, Payne, > Pettebone, Read, Starkey, > >Stephens, Swetland, Thorpe, Tiffany, Whitaker, > Williams, Woodruff > > > > > >==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== > >Have you visited some of the surrounding counties? > >http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/#Surrounding_Counties > >To unsubscribe: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html#MailingList > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > http://explorer.msn.com > > > ==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== > Have you seen the USGenWeb Pennsylvania Page? > http://www.usgenweb.org/pa/ > To unsubscribe: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html#MailingList > ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie