Connie, Thank you very much for this information! I would enjoy reading your ggrandfather's autobiography -- is it available for purchase? My husband's grandparents immigrated from Hungary, then married and began a family in the coal camps of Wise County before settling in PA. (The grandmother baked bread every day!) Ironically, as it turns out, my grandparents (whose ancestors had been in SW VA since the 1700s) were also living in Wise County coal camps during the same period of time. Small world. Ann > > In his auto-biography my g-grandfather, WJ (BIll) Stone, worked in the > office of mining companies in Wise co in the early 1900's, wrote the > following concerning Hungarians who worked in the various mines: >