Angela, Thank you for posting this. Herley Carroll was my Husband's great Uncle. His brother, Thurman (or Thumb) was my husband's grandfather. Thank you again!! Nancy Adkins Carroll

My daddy, Hershel Welch (b. 1920 d. 1980) from Monterey, TN, was a coal miner during those early 1960s at Fork Mountain. I couldn't have been more than two or three when we moved there for about a year. We lived, I was told later, in the second house at the very top of the hill at Fork Mt. (Lavonia). I can only remember a couple of things about Fork Mt. One was when we moved in the house with a high porch (at least to a two or three-year-old) I found a yellow hula hoop. Another thing I remember is sitting in the floor at the front doorway. My sister, 11 years older than me, and my mother were peeling potatoes or apples or something outside on the porch on either side of the door. I was watching for my daddy to come across the railroad track from the mines. I made a trip back up there a few years ago. I took pictures of the church that would have been just a house or two away. There wasn't any houses left on the side where we lived. Does anyone else remember anything about Fork Mt? Thanks, Dale Welch Monterey, TN ----- Original Message ----- From: <NAAC776@aol.com> To: <TNANDERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 6:24 PM Subject: Re: [TNANDERS-L] Fork Mountain Mine Cave In, 1961 (Seiver, Kennedy, Woods, Ca... > Angela, > Thank you for posting this. Herley Carroll was my Husband's great > Uncle. His brother, Thurman (or Thumb) was my husband's grandfather. > Thank you > again!! > > Nancy Adkins Carroll > > > ==== TNANDERS Mailing List ==== > Post your questions and inquiry about your Ancestor regularly...Someone > may find a relative. > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TNANDERS > >