Coal Miners Memorial Williams Mine, Walton, Jefferson Co., PA, U.S.A.

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Coal Miners Memorial
Williams Mine,
Walton,
Jefferson County,
Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

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

Compiled & Edited by
Raymond A. Washlaski

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

Updated Aug. 26, 2010

A Memorial to the Coal Miners that Worked the
Williams Mine

Following is a partial list of the miners, mine employees and company store employees that worked the Williams Mine, Walton, Jefferson 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
WILLIAMS MINE

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Bridge, Andrew
(American Miner, Pick Miner ca.1906, Williams Mine, Jefferson Co., PA, Age 56, married.);
(Injured. Back injured by a fall of bone coal, in the Williams Mine, Jan. 31, 1906. Due to his carelessness.)
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Jones, Mr.
(Welsh Mine, Pick Miner ca.1906, Williams Mine, Jefferson Co., PA, married.)
(Father of William Welsh, killed in the Williams Mine.)
Jones, William
(Welsh Miner Boy, Pick Miner ca.1906, Williams Mine, Jefferson Co., PA, Age 16, single.);
(Killed. Killed by mine cars in the slope. The boy with his father and another man was coming up the slope instead of the traveling way, as the mine had quit. The foreman and the men on the tipple left an empty mine car standing on the track, they say, with sprags in it, but in some way unknown this mine car got away and ran down the incline into the slope and caught the boy. There was a traveling way for the men to come up but they came up the slope. Accident would not have occurred if they had walked the traveling way, in the Williams Mine, Feb. 12, 1906.),
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Leas, Mike
(Italian Miner, Pick Miner ca.1906, Williams Mine, Jefferson Co., PA, Age 25, single.);
(Injured. Injured by a piece of slate, in the Williams Mine, July 24, 1906. Accident due to his carelessness.)
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McMullen, Thomas
(Superintendent, ca.1904, ca.1906, of the Williams Mine, Jefferson Co., PA, for Williams Coal Company, Walton, PA.)

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Rinn, S. A.
(General Superintendent, ca.1906, Williams Coal Company, Punxsutawney, PA, Williams Mine, Jefferson Co., PA.)
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Zaleze, John
(Italian Miner, Pick Miner ca.1904, Williams Mine, Jefferson Co., PA, Age 22, single.);
(Injured. Head and face cut by a fall of slate, in the Williams Mine, July 21, 1904.)

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