Dear Logan County Cousins and family, I hate to beat a dead horse - but the real story of Logan County and the Mining Industry is the huge number of our family that were killed in the mines. These death records document so many violent deaths in the coal mines or our family. Really ticks me off that so many lives were destroyed. Jim Burgess

And as many if not more die after working the mines as our own Hassel Browning whom we lost from Black Lung. I am sure that any of you who are from W.Va. and have male family members who worked the mines have lost someone to B.L. It is not a violent killer as the fires, crashes and disasters are but a horrible slow death. I watched four men in our family before my dad was taken by it. And I am sure I just did not know all of the ones it took. Off of my soap box now. Judi Jim Burgess wrote: >Dear Logan County Cousins and family, > >I hate to beat a dead horse - but the real story of Logan County and the >Mining Industry >is the huge number of our family that were killed in the mines. > >These death records document so many violent deaths in the coal mines or our >family. > >Really ticks me off that so many lives were destroyed. > > >Jim Burgess > > > > >============================== >View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find >marriage announcements and more. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > > > > >