Thanks Glen the site unfortunately does not lead to anything else. I was hoping to get in contact with the Society. I'll keep trying, thanks for the help. Cheers, Shawn >From: Alayne Jenkins <jinxs104@yahoo.co.uk> >Reply-To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com >To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [PA-LAC] Washburn St Cemetery >Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 14:35:42 +0100 (BST) > >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 > > >==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== >Visit the Lackawanna County, PA Archives >http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/lackawp.html >To unsubscribe: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html#MailingList > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com