Hello Jim and God Bless - We will fill in the blanks for you. I learned to despise the coal companies as a young child watching my Uncle Dorsey die of black lung. This was in the early 1950s, and I can still recall it all as though it were yesterday. As I grew older nothing changed my opinion of the coal companies and the WVa legislature they owned and still own. Rick Stewart > > From: "Jim Burgess" <jim@promobiz.biz> > Date: 2006/04/22 Sat AM 01:17:20 EDT > To: WVLOGAN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [WVLOGAN] Jim Burgess typing Toler Deaths in Wyoming and Logan County, West Virginia - Cannot Stand it! I am mad! > > Dear Logan County, West Virginia family and genealogist, > > I was going to give you a report on this in a couple of days when I > finish. But I have to vent my feelings NOW! > > No one loves Logan County, West Virginia more than Jim Burgess > It is a part of my fibre and life. All of my fathers ancestors lived > there and settled there when Logan County was Cabell County West Virginia. > I spent six years of my life there! > > I have typed all of the Toler Death Records in > Wyoming County 31 Toler Deaths > There are 57 Tolers in Logan County Death record > (have typed about 35 of these!) 22 to go! > > 88 Toler Deaths at least 10 died in mining accidents > That is over 10% of them dieing the mines. That is > absolutely rediculous! (Actually I think it is about 15%) > God bless our families who suffered as a result of the > deaths of husbands, fathers and sons. > > At least 10 (of the first 66 typed)were killed in the mines - > The Death records use some of these words: > Broken Neck > Skull Crushed > Body Dismantled > Body Dismembered > Killed by mine locomotive > Run over by train dismembered > Fractured Cerebral > Slate Fall in the mines > Slate Fall > Legs Severed > > How many others died such deaths? > > I am so upset I am going to bed - Will finish this tommorrow. > > This is just one family of 88 Toler names. > > How many more gave their lives? > > God bless Hiram Grant Burgess who took his family to Cabell County, West > Virginia in 1918. I know that Hiram loved Cabell County but I now know why > he left our beloved Logan County, West Virginia. > > My close family survived! My heart goes out to our relatives who > gave their lives so that others could get rich from the mines. > > It is good that I did not know this when I lived in Logan County during > the early 1970's. > > Why have our Logan County families put up with such garbage? > > I am really mad! I want to say a nasty word but cannot! > > Good Night - I am sorry! No I am not sorry! > > > Jim Burgess > > > > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > >