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". Evelyn