Coal Miners Memorial, Jimtown Mine & Coke Works, Jimtown, Broad Ford, Fayette Co., PA, U.S.A.

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Coal Miners Memorial
Jimtown Mine & Coke Works,
Jimtown,
Lower Tyron Twp.,
near Broad Ford,
Fayette County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

A Memorial to the Coal Miners that mined the Bituminous Coal seams of the Jimtown Mine, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Compiled & Edited by
Raymond A. Washlaski

Raymond A. Washlaski, Historian, Editor,
Ryan P. Washlaski, Technical Editor,

Updated Dec. 11, 2008

A Memorial to the Coal Miners that Worked the
Jimtown Mine & Coke Works

Following is a partial list of the miners, coke workers, mine employees and company store employees that worked the Jimtown Mine & Coke Works, Jimtown, near Broad Ford, Fayette Co., PA. The coal miners names have been researched and complied from various sources by Raymond A. Washlaski, Historian: newspaper obits, newspaper articles, Pennsylvania Bureau of Mines Reports, township histories, and names of coal miners submitted by various people, etc..
The Nationalities listed for various miners, are taken directly from "Report of the Department of Mines of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA" as reported for the various years. Those listed as American, could be either native born or naturalized citizens.
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Since 1870, Pennsylvania's Annual Report on Mining Activities has recorded 51,483 deaths from mining accidents-- 31,113 deaths in anthracite mines and 20,370 deaths in bituminous mines.

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COAL MINERS MEMORIAL
JIMTOWN MINE & COKE WORKS

[ A ]
[ B ]
[ C ]
Clingerman, W. H.
(General Superintendent, ca.1905, H.C. Frick Coke Company, Jimtown Mine, Fayette Co., PA.)
[ D ]
Dottling, Frederick
(German Miner, Pick Miner ca.1903, Jimtown Mine, Fayette Co., PA, Age 40, married, 4 children.);
(Killed. Killed instantly by falling roof coal & slate, in the Jimtown Mine, Oct. 7, 1903.);
(October 7, Jimtown Mine, Frederick Dottling, miner, was killed instantly. He was employed drawing main chain pillar in company with Alvin R. Orbin, who was present at the time. During the night a portion of slate had fallen upon the roadway a short distance from their working face, and they were engaged loading the slate into a car, when a large slab of roof-coal and slate fell from the side of the pillar and caught Dottling.)
[ E ]
[ F ]
[ G ]
[ H ]
Haas, William
(Superintendent, ca.1910, of the Jimtown Mine, Fayette Co., PA, for H.C. Frick Coke Company, Scottdale, PA.)
[ I ]
[ J ]
[ K ]
Kennedy, O.W.
(General Superintendent, ca.1901, ca.1903, H.C. Frick Coke Company, Jimtown Mine, Fayette Co., PA.)
[ L ]
[ M ]
Mullen, W.C.
(Superintendent ca.1905, of the Jimtown Mine, Fayette Co., PA, for H.C. Frick Coke Company.)
Muszynski, Andrew
(Miner, ca.1900, Jimtown Mine, Fayette Co., PA.);
(moved to Toledo, Ohio about ca.1901, died in Toledo, OH.)
[ N ]
Nedley, Abraham
(Miner, ca.1870, Jimtown Mine, Fayette Co., PA.);
(Brother-in-law of Eli Seighman.)

[ O ]
Orbin, Alvin R.
(American Miner, Pick Miner ca.1903, Jimtown Mine, Fayette Co., PA, Age 42, married.);
(Injured. Head cut and bruised by falling roof coal & slate, in the Jimtown Mine, Oct. 7, 1903.)
[ P ]
[ Q ]
[ R ]
[ S ]
Seighman, Eli
(Miner, ca.1869-1890, Jimtown Mine, Fayette Co., PA.);
(married after 1880.);
(Brother-in-law of Abraham Nedley.)
Shomer, Samuel
(Miner, Pick Miner ca.1894, Jimtown Mine near Dawson, Fayette Co., PA.);
(Killed. Fatelly injured when a piece of wood from a roof fell and pinned him to a mine wagon for some time, in the Jimtown Mine, May 21, 1894. He died May 23, 1894. [from "The Connellsville Courier," May 25, 1894.].)
[ T ]
[ U ]
[ V ]
[ W ]
White, J. M.
(Superintenent, ca.1901, of the Jimtown Mine, Fayette Co., PA, for H.C. Frick Coke Company.)
Williams, Andrew
(American Miner, Pick Miner ca.1902, Jimtown Mine, Fayette Co., PA, Age 22, single.);
(Killed. Killed instantly by fall of coal & slate, in the Jimtown Mine, Oct. 2, 1902.)
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A special thanks to Glen Dixon for his research in the "Connellsville Courier" newspaper and other newspapers of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and the addition of many of the miners names from Fayette County.

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