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