This is something all of us 80 + remember well.? I was born in Loagn County.? Grew up in Pike County. Gone at an early age.?? http://kycoal.homestead.com/KYCoalMiningHistory.html The URL above is a classic.?? It is pictures of Kentucky and WV coal miners.? Mostly KY.? The towns are all familiar to most of us.?? My daddy worked for Armour & Company in the coal areas of Kentucky and WV for many years.??He talked ?about many of the mines particular Consolidation Coal Co and Inland Steel.? I have been in most of those Eastern Kentucky Coal camps collecting for Time Finance Company.? I use to go to Wheelwright? on pay day. I would go up to the mine shower house and find the ones I needed to collect from and then to the colored boarding house. ?Wheelwright had two "hollers".? Hall hollow and Branham hollow.? The blacks lived?along one hollow and the whites along the other.? ?I drove the company jeep. I had guns pulled on me on two occasions but was smart enough to smile and walk away with my mouth shut.? I remember my uncle Burley Chapman having big scars on his back from hitting the mine bolts that held up the mine roof.? Look at these when you have some time.? There is a lot of history here and a lot of misery and ?heart break. Charles R. More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail! ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com
Thank you for a wonderful website. I bookmarked that one. My grandfather, Henry Frank Wilson, worked at Aflex, Ky in the early 1900s and later came to Logan County as a miner. He died in 1933 of Black Lung. His boys (Frank, Henry Morris (my dad), and James all worked in various coal mines in Logan County. My dad told me that he went into the mines as a helper at age 8 and that a mule was more valued than the life of a human being. My dad died of Black Lung On December 17, 1995. Does anyone know how I would go about getting my family's records of having worked in the coal mines? Does the government have a record, or are records kept by individual coal companies? Ada Wilson Kent Researching Wilson, Ellis, Duty, Spence, Mullett, Sesco For about 20 years and I'm not making much progress -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 1:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [WVLOGAN] Fwd: Kentucky Coal Mines. This is something all of us 80 + remember well.? I was born in Loagn County.? Grew up in Pike County. Gone at an early age.?? http://kycoal.homestead.com/KYCoalMiningHistory.html The URL above is a classic.?? It is pictures of Kentucky and WV coal miners.? Mostly KY.? The towns are all familiar to most of us.?? My daddy worked for Armour & Company in the coal areas of Kentucky and WV for many years.??He talked ?about many of the mines particular Consolidation Coal Co and Inland Steel.? I have been in most of those Eastern Kentucky Coal camps collecting for Time Finance Company.? I use to go to Wheelwright? on pay day. I would go up to the mine shower house and find the ones I needed to collect from and then to the colored boarding house. ?Wheelwright had two "hollers".? Hall hollow and Branham hollow.? The blacks lived?along one hollow and the whites along the other.? ?I drove the company jeep. I had guns pulled on me on two occasions but was smart enough to smile and walk away with my mouth shut.? I remember my uncle Burley Chapman having big scars on his back from hitting the mine bolts that held up the mine roof.? Look at these when you have some time.? There is a lot of history here and a lot of misery and ?heart break. Charles R. More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail! ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message