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Coal Miners Memorial
Percy Mine & Coke Works,
Percy,
Menallen Twp.,
Fayette County,
Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

A Memorial to the Coal Miners that mined the Bituminous Coal seams of the Percy Mine & Coke Works, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Compiled & Edited by
Raymond A. Washlaski

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

Updated Aug. 20, 2009

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

Following is a partial list of the miners, coke workers, mine employees and company store employees that worked the Percy Mine & Coke Works, Percy, Menallen Twp., 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 coal mines and 20,370 deaths in bituminous coal mines.

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COAL MINERS MEMORIAL
PERCY MINE & COKE WORKS

[ A ]
[ B ]
[ C ]
Cole, Uriah
(Miner, ca.1898, Percy Mine, Fayette Co., PA, married, wife Maggie Cole.);
(Uriah Cole also worked at the Mt. Braddock Mine.)
Conn, Charles
(Miner, ca.1899, Percy Mine, Fayette Co., PA, married, wife Ester Conn.)
[ D ]
Delaulleys, Louis
(Superintendent, ca.1900, of the Percy Mine, Fayette Co., PA, for Percy Mining Comapny.)
DeSaulles, Lewis, Jr.
(Superintendent, ca.1901, of the Percy Mine, Fayette Co., PA, for Percy Mining Company.);
(General Superintendent, ca.1903, Percy Mining Company, Percy Mine.)
DeSaulles, Louis
(Superintendent, ca.1889, ca.1894, ca.1898, of the Percy Mine & Coke Works, Fayette Co., PA, for Percy Mining Company.);
(General Superintendent, ca.1901, Percy Mining Company, Percy Mine, Fayette Co., PA.)
[ E ]
[ F ]
[ G ]
[ H ]
Harris, John
(Miner Boy, Laborer ca.1889, Percy Mine, Fayette Co., PA, Age 13);
(Killed. Fatally injured while playing about the coke ovens; he had been warned by the charger to keep away from the coke ovens, but unknown to him the boy had jumped on the hind end of the larry to take a ride (while the charger was in front) and before the larry stopped the boy jumped off in order that the charger would not find him riding and in doing unknowingly jumped into the tunnel head or opening in top of one of the coke ovens; the boy was taken out immediately but his burns were so severe that he died in about nine days, outside the Percy Mine, March 28, 1889.)
Hawk, David
(American Miner, Pick Miner ca.1900, Percy Mine, Fayette Co., PA, Age 38, married, 3children.);
(Killed. Instantly killed by a fall of slate, in the Percy Mine, July 2, 1900.);
(David Hawk was killed by a second fall of slate while trying to save his brother, who was caught by the first fall of slate.)
(b. Abt. May 1870 - d. July 2, 1900.);
(David Hawk lived in Yaugertown Hollow, Fayette Co., PA.)
Hawk, John
(Miner, ca.1900, Percy Mine, Fayette Co., PA.)
Hawk, Peter
(American Miner, Pick Miner ca.1900, Percy Mine, Fayette Co., PA, Age 51, married.);
(Injured. Seriously injured, brusied about the head and body, by a fall of slate on hauling road, in the Percy Mine, July 2, 1900.);
(The slate fall killed two of his brothers.);
(Peter Hawk lived in Lemont Furnace, PA.)
Hawk, William, Jr.
(American Miner, Pick Miner ca.1900, Percy Mine, Fayette Co., PA, Age 40, married, 4 childen.);
(Killed. Fatally injured by a fall of slate, while robbing a stump, in the Percy Mine, July 2, 1900. Died one half hour later.);
(b. September 01, 1860 - d. July 2, 1900.);
(David Hawk was also killed trying to save his brother.);
(William Hawk lived in Yaugertown Hollow, Fayette Co., PA.)
[ I ]
[ J ]
Johnson, C. W.
(General Superintendent, ca.1912, ca.1913, ca.1916, Johnson Fuel Company, Uniontown, PA, Percy Mine, Fayette Co., PA.);
(Superintendent, ca.1912, of the Percy Mine, Fayette Co., PA, for Johnson Fuel Company, Uniontown, PA.)
[ K ]
[ L ]
[ M ]
Mahony, P. G.
(General Superintenent, ca.1904, ca.1905, ca.1906, Percy Mining Company, Percy, PA, Percy Mine, Fayette Co., PA.);
(Superintendent, ca.1904, ca.1905, ca.1906, of the Percy Mine, Fayette Co., PA, for Percy Mining Company.)
[ N ]

[ O ]
[ P ]
[ Q ]
[ R ]
[ S ]
Shipley, Albert
(Miner Boy, Door Boy ca.1886, Percy Mine, Percy, Fayette Co., PA, Age 14.);
(Injured. Hurt by a mule running away, in the Percy Mine, March 26, 1886.)
Shipley, Everhart
(Miner, Mining Boss ca.1894, ca.1898, Percy Mine, Fayette Co., PA, for Percy Mining Company.)
Sterling, J. W.
(Superintendent, ca.1913, of the Percy Mine, Fayette Co., PA, for Johnson Fuel Company.)
Stirling, I. O.
(Superintendent, ca.1916, of the Percy Mine, Fayette Co., PA, for Johnson Fuel Company.);
(General Superintendent, ca.1917, Johnson Fuel Company, Percy Mine, Fayette Co., PA.)
[ T ]
[ U ]
[ V ]
[ W ]
Wilson, R. B.
(Miner, ca.1897, Percy Mine, Fayette Co., PA, married, wife Ada Wilson.)
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[ Y ]
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