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