A few comments! Ed: We all deeply, very deeply, appreciate these posts, and hope you will have the energy, etc., to keep them coming. This growing "database" covers even the year of the tragedy-bound 1890 census, and is all the better for that. But you know these things, and why I feel impelled to write is this: It looks like a lot of my family, in the last decade of the 19th century, came to Camden, NJ. This particular issue of the Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader not only mirrors what many of us have suspected, but puts it into the print of the times, thus assuring us that it was archived that conditions had really reached that point where many would have to turn to other sources for income and food. This is a beacon issue, I think. I intend to copy and paste this into my notes, as a major part of the motivational drive to come to Camden. Thanks, Ed! Vince > Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, Thu, Mar 6, 1890 > > > MARRIAGES: > The marriage of Miss AGNES DAVIS and DAVID RICHARDS took place last evening > at the bride’s residence, 10 Airy Street, by Rev Hughes of Ashley. The > bridesmaid was Miss REBECCA RICHARDS, sister of the groom, groomsman HENRY > BEERS. > > In Wilkes-Barre Mar 4, by Rev A Griffin, W C NAGLE, and Miss EMMA MITCHELL, > all of this city > > MARRIAGE LICENSE GRANTED: > JOHN F DAVIS, Audenreid > RUTH DAVIS, Jeansville > > > DEATHS: > At Cranberry mar 5, the infant son of Mr and Mrs JOHN KOCH > > At Pittston, EVA IRENE, daughter of WILLIAM and the late CATHERINE THRASH, > aged 10 months and 20 days > > In this city Mar 3, CHARLES B ROTH, of consumption, aged 36 years > > In Parsons Mar 6, JAMES STAPLE, aged 16 months > > > FUNERAL: > The funeral of CHARLES ROTH took place took place from the residence of the > deceased’s brother ERNEST ROTH, at 2 o’clock this afternoon. Rev H L Jones > and Rev H E Hayden officiated and a choir from St Stephen’s church sung. > Interment was made in Hollenback cemetery. > > MINE ACCIDENT: > RICHARD PARRY was injured seriously by a fall of rock in the Hillman Vein > colliery yesterday. It was his first day’s work in the mines. > > > PLYMOUTH MINE ACCIDENT: > Mine disasters seem to be contagious. The accident, which occurred in No. > 12 Plymouth Coal Co.’s colliery, and which was reported in the Leader, hurt > two men so badly that they are not likely to recover. One of them, JAMES > LEONARD, aged 28 years, married, with a wife and one child, had his right > arm fractured, one eye blown out, and his left leg broken in three or four > places. THOMAS OWENS, aged 32 years, married with a wife and several > children, had both legs broken. They were tamping a rock hole when the > blast exploded. > > > SOUTH WILKES-BARRE MINE DISASTER: > The condition of things at the South Wilkes-Barre colliery remains about the > same as yesterday, with the exception that efforts to flood No. 3 shaft are > progressing and meeting with success. An accurate sounding was made at 11 o > ’clock this morning and 57 œ feet of water was found. It will be necessary > to add 369 feet to this before the level is reached of the working in which > the blazing tunnel is located. This will take several days. > > MINER’S PLIGHT IN PLYMOUTH: > There is no use in longer disguising the fact that many families in this > locality are hard up. Even when the collieries made three-quarter time they > had as much as they could do to keep body and soul together. Now, however, > when the collieries are working only a few days in every month, with no > prospect of doing better, people are becoming discouraged as hunger and want > stare them in the face. Indeed, many who are supposed to be in easy > circumstances, are in actual need. > > > BRIEFS: > >From Plymouth, MICHAEL O’DONNELL and family moved yesterday from Mount > Pleasant, near Hazleton, to Welsh Hill. > > > Ed, Phoenix > > > > ==== PALUZERN Mailing List ==== > USGenWeb PA Tombstone Transcriptions (NEW): > http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/pennsyl.html >