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| Name: | judith hawkins freeman |
| E-mail address: | judikthf@email.com |
| Comments: | I grew up in jenkinjones w va in 1965 to 1970. |
| Name: | Sharon Little Sheasley |
| E-mail address: | ahairdo@webtv.net |
| Name: | Drema Wilson |
| E-mail address: | loribel@bright.net |
| Comments: | I would be interested in more information concerning 1946 mine disaster. My father was injured in that explosion. He passed away in 1977.
My grandfather's last name was Stroupe. Any information you can send would be greatly appreciated. My father's name was Walter Belcher. He was 30 years old at that time. My grandmother ran a boarding house very close to the site. Thank You. |
| Name: | rebecca sigmon |
| E-mail address: | drangonflylady@aol.com |
| Comments: | looking for sigmon familys from the kannapolis area.anyone kin or knew eural edward sigmon who resided in brighton colorado,he was married to a loretta brannon,he was also in the navy. |
| Name: | Wendie Lewis |
| E-mail address: | wenndoubt@triad.rr.com |
| Comments: | Thank you for site. My father in law was a WVA coalminer and I always have questions.
I am doing genealogy research on our families now. If anyone has information on Sigmons, Deskins, Ellis, Fenders. Please email me. Rebecca Dawson Lewis is my mother in law. She was adopted by Robert and Nettie Dawson. Mrs. Dawson ran a boarding house in English. We are trying to locate Rebecca's birth mother. |
| Name: | Diana Huston |
| E-mail address: | di19901@netzero.net |
| Comments: | My Mother is Juanita Mary(Moore) Wendland.My Grandparents were Robert and Maude (Tabor) Moore.I lived on Shinbrier MT.as a kid . I went to Bramwell grade school.Alot of my Mothers family lived on the mountain. The Moores and the Tabors were all family.We are related to the Gullions also. We lived in the little white house which is not there now.It was just before Billy Moores place.Looking for any information.We always walked the mountain.
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| Name: | Betty Lowe, nelms |
| E-mail address: | cmfi-sonsofzion@suddenlink.net |
| Comments: | I was very interested in all that was on this site. My great grand father died in the Havaco mine disaster in 1912, his name was J.B. Pennington.He is on the deceased list.
I am trying to get a history together for my children, their children and the great grand children so they know some of the things that have happened in the family history. My gret grand mother was married to R.E.Pennington and they had five daughters, she had just had thier last baby when the mine disaaster happened. She was Delaware/Lenape Indian and had a terrible future to face with her husband gone , the trama of it all and and four dughters left to raise alone.My grand mother had married young and took her sisters to finish raising and breast fed her baby sister along with my dad, her mother was in such bad shape, she was instuitutionalized for a while. Terrible trama to all concerned. Great site and thaks for it ! Betty Nelms |
| Name: | Betty Carolyn Nelms |
| E-mail address: | cmfi-sonsofzion@suddenlink,net |
| Comments: | My great grand father was R.E. Pennington and is listed in the obituary list of the Havaco Mine disaster.My father was born in what was Jed,West Virginia and I was, as were my siblings also born in WestVirginia, but in Beckley. I am putting together the best geneology reportI am able for my children grand children and great grand children while I am alive and able.I dodn't want them to miss out on thier history if I could help it, it took a life time before we actually found out that was how he died. Our great grand mother was Indian. Lenape/Delaware Indiana and never spoke a word about her history or that of her husband and we so wanted to know our roots etc. Thanks for your contribution. I pesonally appreciate all you have done.
Betty C. Nelms |
| Name: | Pamela Wyatt |
| E-mail address: | pywyatt@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I just found this page today and enjoyed the writings of the people on here ,
I was originally from the welch area, left there but still call it home , good to see this is still on here .. GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU |
| Name: | Layne Warner Coleman |
| E-mail address: | rxkindness@aol.com |
| Comments: | I graduated Welch High in 1970.I lived in Big Sandy during my school years. I now live in North Carolina and have been here since 1988 when my younger brother,Daniel, was killed in a Massey mine at Jr.Poca on April 21,1988.My husband was also a coal miner at the time.One death in the family in a dark damp coal mine was enough. I think this web site is wonderful.Thank you for not letting people forget the miners,those who died,those who retired and those still living.
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| Name: | David Rose |
| E-mail address: | Rose2005@comcast.net |
| Comments: | After the mining disaster at Sago Mines it kinda prompted me to view other disasters. May God rest their souls. |
| Name: | Sue (Antone) Meers |
| E-mail address: | sueme@warpdriveonline.com |
| Comments: | I too lived in Havaco at the time of the 1946 mine explosion. I remember I had just gotten to school in Welch when it happened and the windows in the school rattled and you could hear the blast. We were immediately released from school and sent home. My father was not a miner but the manager of the (I think it was called RF&P Store)company store and we lived just down the hill. We left W VA and moved back to Va. when I was 15. This site brought back many memories for me. Thank you. |
| Name: | joyce glass |
| E-mail address: | joy142711423@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I grew up on shinbrier hill MY sister Zana Brothers Victor (cracker) and frankie Spent many Fun Filled days runing and playing on that hill. Swing on the Tabors Swings .running around the road to our grama's house who lived around the road from the Tabors on THE Bluestone side of the hill. her name was Tela Belcher and she lived there into her 80's We lived right under the Tabors WE are the Henderson family.Sons and Daughters of Vic & Margaret Henderson .Great place to be a kid. Hope to Visit this Summer.Cousin Jim lives in Gramas house .how lucky is that? |
| Name: | joyce glass |
| E-mail address: | joy142711423@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I grew up on shinbrier hill MY sister Zana Brothers Victor (cracker) and frankie Spent many Fun Filled days runing and playing on that hill. Swing on the Tabors Swings .running around the road to our grama's house who lived around the road from the Tabors on THE Bluestone side of the hill. her name was Tela Belcher and she lived there into her 80's We lived right under the Tabors WE are the Henderson family.Sons and Daughters of Vic & Margaret Henderson .Great place to be a kid. Hope to Visit this Summer.Cousin Jim lives in Gramas house .how lucky is that? |
| Name: | angela lockhart |
| E-mail address: | angelica_greeneyes@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | im a lockhart my family is from va and ky decendents from albert and anetta have family tree, i have posted a story about my father who was murdered in flint mich. its under albert lockhart in a blog in googel ty angela |
| Name: | angela lockhart |
| E-mail address: | angelica_greeneyes@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | im a lockhart my family is from va and ky decendents from albert and anetta have family tree, i have posted a story about my father who was murdered in flint mich. its under albert lockhart in a blog in googel ty angela |
| Name: | Tammy (Lockhart) Surratt |
| E-mail address: | wjtes@aol.com |
| Comments: | I was told about your web site by my Mother LaVerne (Carter) Lockhart & her sister Deloris (Carter) Lockhart. I found it very interesting as I always do find the history of McDowell County. All my family from both my Dad's side and my Mother's side are originally from McDowell County. My Dad & Mother's family have all worked in the coal mines at one time or another from Grandfather's to Uncle's to Cousin's (some of who still do) to my Brother who is now currently a miner. I feel for those who have lost loved ones to mine explosions or anything to do with the mines but it is part of our history and it's because of that history that we are who we are today. We were raised to have strong belief's and values by those who worked in the mines and stretched the pay enough to care for their family's and raise their children to know what was right and to love one another and respect your history. My Dad's family all lived in Gary (Grandfather was Wallace Lockhart, wife: Kathleen Lockhart). My Mother's grew up in Havaco (Grandfather was Herman Carter, wife: Ida Marie (Phillips) Carter). It was a way of life I grew up loving and appreciating. I love to sit and her the story's from my mother and her sister's about when they were children. If you ever want to live a little history, try living it through their eyes. You'll walk away feeling your a different person. *note: Just a little fact about my family you might find as funny but interesting as I have all these years: My Dad was Ronald Lee Lockhart who married Mom: LaVerne Carter, Dad's Brother Garnett Lockhart married Mom's sister: Deloris Carter. It didn't end there, Dad had two other siblings do the same, Albert Lockhart and James Lockhart married two sister's (not Carter's but sister still the same) they were Carmen (Albert's wife) and Donna (James wife). Thanks for the stroll through your memories.
Wednesday, April 13, 2005 |
| Name: | Tammy (Lockhart) Surratt |
| E-mail address: | wjtes@aol.com |
| Comments: | I was told about your web site by my Mother LaVerne (Carter) Lockhart & her sister Deloris (Carter) Lockhart. I found it very interesting as I always do find the history of McDowell County. All my family from both my Dad's side and my Mother's side are originally from McDowell County. My Dad & Mother's family have all worked in the coal mines at one time or another from Grandfather's to Uncle's to Cousin's (some of who still do) to my Brother who is now currently a miner. I feel for those who have lost loved ones to mine explosions or anything to do with the mines but it is part of our history and it's because of that history that we are who we are today. We were raised to have strong belief's and values by those who worked in the mines and stretched the pay enough to care for their family's and raise their children to know what was right and to love one another and respect your history. My Dad's family all lived in Gary (Grandfather was Wallace Lockhart, wife: Kathleen Lockhart). My Mother's grew up in Havaco (Grandfather was Herman Carter, wife: Ida Marie (Phillips) Carter). It was a way of life I grew up loving and appreciating. I love to sit and her the story's from my mother and her sister's about when they were children. If you ever want to live a little history, try living it through their eyes. You'll walk away feeling your a different person. *note: Just a little fact about my family you might find as funny but interesting as I have all these years: My Dad was Ronald Lee Lockhart who married Mom: LaVerne Carter, Dad's Brother Garnett Lockhart married Mom's sister: Deloris Carter. It didn't end there, Dad had two other siblings do the same, Albert Lockhart and James Lockhart married two sister's (not Carter's but sister still the same) they were Carmen (Albert's wife) and Donna (James wife). Thanks for the stroll through your memories. |
| Name: | Tammy (Lockhart) Surratt |
| E-mail address: | wjtes@aol.com |
| Comments: | I was told about your web site by my Mother LaVerne (Carter) Lockhart & her sister Deloris (Carter) Lockhart. I found it very interesting as I always do find the history of McDowell County. All my family from both my Dad's side and my Mother's side are originally from McDowell County. My Dad & Mother's family have all worked in the coal mines at one time or another from Grandfather's to Uncle's to Cousin's (some of who still do) to my Brother who is now currently a miner. I feel for those who have lost loved ones to mine explosions or anything to do with the mines but it is part of our history and it's because of that history that we are who we are today. We were raised to have strong belief's and values by those who worked in the mines and stretched the pay enough to care for their family's and raise their children to know what was right and to love one another and respect your history. My Dad's family all lived in Gary (Grandfather was Wallace Lockhart, wife: Kathleen Lockhart). My Mother's grew up in Havaco (Grandfather was Herman Carter, wife: Ida Marie (Phillips) Carter). It was a way of life I grew up loving and appreciating. I love to sit and her the story's from my mother and her sister's about when they were children. If you ever want to live a little history, try living it through their eyes. You'll walk away feeling your a different person. *note: Just a little fact about my family you might find as funny but interesting as I have all these years: My Dad was Ronald Lee Lockhart who married Mom: LaVerne Carter, Dad's Brother Garnett Lockhart married Mom's sister: Deloris Carter. It didn't end there, Dad had two other siblings do the same, Albert Lockhart and James Lockhart married two sister's (not Carter's but sister still the same) they were Carmen (Albert's wife) and Donna (James wife). Thanks for the stroll through your memories. |
| Name: | Laverne (Carter) Lockhart |
| E-mail address: | LockhartDeel@aol.com |
| Comments: | David just wanted to share a few things about Havaco my sisters and I have searched for a long time for information on the Havaco mine explosion. Our father Robert Herman Carter was working at the mines at the time of the second explosion he had gone to work that morning and was ill so he had came outside to see the company doctor when the mines exploded. Dr. Ralph Counts was the company doctor at the time so the doctor and my father went back to the mines to see if they could help with the rescue of many of his friends and relatives. When my dad got to the shaft of the mines he saw my brother (Billy Carter) watching for him with tears in his eyes my dad hugged him and told him to go home and tell my mother he was alright and would see her later. Many wives and children stood around the company store waiting for word of their loved ones. I was in the forth grade at Havaco Grade SCHOOL I can remember well the cry's of the children as the plaster was falling from the ceilings and wall, the windows were broken some of the children had cuts and bruises, we were told to go straight home to our mothers. There were many that lost their lives on that dreadful day, life would never be the same. Times changed and life went on several years past then one day the men reported to work only to be told they had no job the mines was to close they were devasted because many of them never worked any where but the mines. Dad tried to find work in W.Va. but had to leave the state, We moved to Southern Pines, N.C.where he passed away on Aug. 1st. 1964 He is buried in the Rodifield cemetary at last our dad was laid to rest in the place he loved most. My brother Dwayne was killed in Vietnam on his eighteenth birthday and was laid to rest next to my dad.Thanks for the memories hope this helps looking forward to reading more articles from others. Laverne (Carter)Lockhart hope to hear from others from Havaco that we grew up with. |
| Name: | Deloris Carter Lockhart |
| E-mail address: | LockhartDeel@aol.com |
| Comments: | David, thanks for a great page. I was borned and raised in Havaco, My father was a coal miner and a pentecostal minister,my dad was in the second mine distered. He came out just long enough to send word that he was ok, but was going back in to help bring out the men who were hurt.Thanks for a great job, I have been back many times to visit, was a great place to grow up Deloris |
| Name: | Faye carter Grim |
| E-mail address: | fayful me @aol.comI |
| Comments: | I lived in the coal fields for 17 years until we moved to Fayetteville nc. my father Herman carter worked in the havaco mines when it exploded. we have lots of fond memories of Havaco and schools we attended there. thanks for this sight . Faye |
| Name: | April |
| E-mail address: | mvm_gurl_2005 |
| Comments: | I live in Havaco And I love It!!!If you have any information on The Jed Mining Explosion please email me at
mvm_gurl_2005@yahoo.com |
| Name: | april carter |
| E-mail address: | mvm_gurl_2005@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I live in havaco its a great place and i love to hear the history of it.
If you have any information on it please contact me!!!! |
| Name: | april |
| E-mail address: | mvm_gurl_2005 |
| Comments: | I live in Havaco its |
| Name: | Delcia Clifton Alderson |
| E-mail address: | doa001@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Thanks for sharing the info on the explosion at Havaco Mines of 1946. My brother-in-law--Ira Alderson and my step-father-in-law--Walter Bell both were killed in that explosion. |
| Name: | tedfromlewes@msn.com |
| Comments: | grew up in McDowell county left 1958 been back a few times live in Delaware now |
| Name: | Jim Marks |
| E-mail address: | marks090@comcast.net |
| Comments: | I read your page with interest. My faher Adelino Marks was a coal miner in Gary in the early 30's until we moved to New Jersey in 1942. I drove back to the area last year looking for my old home as I remembered it but recognized nothing. When my family left Gary in 1942 it consisted of sisters,Wanda and Mary Lou and a brother Carlos. My mothers name was Edith. If any one has any pictures or knows anything of Gary during that period I would like to hear from you.
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| Name: | CLAUDINE SQUARES |
| E-mail address: | CSQUARES@CSH.STATE. VA.US |
| Comments: | I enjoyed seeing this so much. I need to go back home to see Havaco, Welch, Gary and sourrounding areas. |
| Name: | Steve Quest |
| E-mail address: | steve@stevequest.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.montagraphy.com |
| Comments: | I have found through site statistics that citlink.net is carrying the 9/11 Audio/Flash Tribute of "Freedom Speaks" on your main site.
I thank you, so very much, for sharing this hyper-link with your visitors! We are surely blessed to be Americans and blessed to be free! May You, your Family and Friends be healthy, happy and most importantly Free for years to come. Steve Quest |
| Name: | Peggy Donna (Young) Phelps |
| E-mail address: | frankpeg@bellsouth.net |
| Comments: | Thank you, to the person or people who have put all this together.
I spent the first 35 years of my life in McDowell County. I can't stand to go back and see the remains. I still have a sister there. |
| Name: | brenda spence fried |
| E-mail address: | brenfried@earthlink.net |
| Comments: | i am the daughter of a west virginia coal miner i lived in twin branch wva my father died at age 61 from black lung thank you for your site |
| Name: | Everett E. Honaker |
| E-mail address: | thirteenx32001 |
| Comments: | Borned and raised in the moumtains of McDowell County,War,WVA. Born 1940,left for military in 1958. Go back ever year or so. Love thoese mountains, but wouldn't live there |
| Name: | Buck Reeves |
| E-mail address: | kxb9047@charter.net |
| Comments: | This was greatly needed for school thinks very much |
| Name: | Daniel Carter |
| E-mail address: | lcarter1@intelos.net |
| Comments: | I lived up Slate Dump Hollow when the explosion occured. I was about 2 years old at the time. Dad worked for the Havaco mine for about 28 years. My Dad said that it knocked all the windows out of our house. My Dads name was Earl R. Carter. He helped bring the victims out by lowering a bucket down the air shaft and pulling them up through the shaft. Yor site bought back memories of the stories my Dad told me about the explosions.
August 23, 2002 |
| Name: | Daniel Carter |
| E-mail address: | lcarter1@intelos.net |
| Comments: | I lived up Slate Dump Hollow when the explosion occured. I was about 2 years old at the time. Dad worked for the Havaco mine for about 28 years. My Dad said that it knocked all the windows out of our house. My Dads name was Earl R. Carter. He helped bring the victims out by lowering a bucket down the air shaft and pulling them up through the shaft. Yor site bought back memories of the stories my Dad told me about the explosions. |
| Name: | Harold Hollingsworth |
| E-mail address: | rhollglorycrk@earthlink.net |
| Homepage URL: | http:// |
| Comments: | Thanks for sharing your Historical information with us. I often try to share with younger people and out of state visitors what W.V. was once like, not so many years ago, and I don't believe they really understand. I often show them where dozens of houses, stores and theatre's once stood and they just don't believe me. It is always sad to me to go through an area where at one time so much life was lived and nothing be there to show there was ever a town. |
| Name: | Carlotta |
| E-mail address: | carlotta@bull-mastiff-dogs.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.bull-mastiff-dogs.com |
| Comments: | Very good job on your website! |
| Name: | Jennifer (Jill) Jones Bayle |
| E-mail address: | jendz1@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I grew up in Havaco and am a "Coalminer's Daughter" and granddaughter. I'm very glad to see the time devoted to the articles and pictures on this site. Although I haven't lived in Havaco for quite some time, it is still my home - I miss the kindness and friendship of McDowell County. Keep up the great work on the site!
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| Name: | johnny kibbey |
| E-mail address: | jkibbey@citlink.nt |
| Comments: | interesting stories. i am the son of a coal minier. my dad died in 1976. he worked at the island creek coal company at Bartley wv. in january 1940 the mine blew up killing 91 miners. i was born the next month in Feb. i grew up with a lot of kids who lost their dad. my dad was working at that mine but was on a different shift. |
| Name: | Linda ( Bradley ) Wagner |
| E-mail address: | mema142@ballistic.com |
| Comments: | So many memories so many tears. I was born in McDowell Co. and grew up in Jenkinjones. I remember waiting for Daddy to come home from work. I also remember hearing the sirens. Daddy died in 1976 from Black Lung and heart attack. Thanks for a wonderful site. I now live in Texas and try to get HOME to WVa every couple of years |
| Name: | lisa hager |
| E-mail address: | kh@citynet.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://shadygrandmaw |
| Comments: | im the daughter of a coal minerthat has noe retired im so sorry about the explosion it us to worry me all the time when my dad would go to work. not knowing if he would come back home. |
| Name: | Sue E. Waldron |
| E-mail address: | blazer@carolina.rr.com |
| Comments: | David,
Thanks so much for this tribute. My Grandfather, Albert R. Miller was killed in the 1946 explosion. This was before my time but I have clippings from the Welch Daily News and have heard my family talk of it often. It was a very sad time for my Grandmother, Rebecca ( Pearl) Miller , as her birthday was on Jan. 15th. You did a great job on the site and I have sent this link to many family members and friends. |
| Name: | Teresa Peters Goins |
| Comments: | David, thanks for a great page! As a former resident of Havaco and a coal miner's daughter, I found this page quite interesting. Also I thank God that my dad was able to retire and finally get out of the mines. |
| Name: | cecilia |
| E-mail address: | hmsovanni@uolsinectis.com.ar |
| Comments: | hello. my name is cecilia sovanni. iīm from Argentina. i found my last name in this page, i reed the story and i canīt believe it. I donīt know if Goivanni Sovanni was my relative. If you want please write to me . thank you. sorry for my english.
bye |
| Name: | Robert "Tim" Gilley |
| E-mail address: | Gwvhills@wmconnect.com |
| Comments: | David, we certainly enjoy the Sites pertaining to Mine Disasters, and viewing the Photos of the 2001 Floods, etc. As for the Havaco Mine Disaster of Jan. 1946, my Bro. Jimmy was a Senior at Welch High, while I was a 9th Grader in Welch, when the explosion was felt 7 miles away. The windows rattled. Have read your recount of the disaster event, which is interesting, considering that our Dad - James L. Gilley was the US Mine Safety Engineer who investigated the disaster, and wrote the report for M.S.H.A.and Mine Industry. Best regards, Tim- Altamonte Springs, Fl. |
| Name: | Norma (Harrison) Roberts |
| E-mail address: | Nrobertsj1@aol.com |
| Comments: | My parents moved to Havaco when I was l9yrs old. At the time I was working for NR&P Co. store at Newhall,and was able to transfer to the Havaco store. I made many friends
which I am sorry to say I have mostly forgotten, but I loved living there. It was a nice community at the time. My father died and Mother has moved away, but I shall never forget Havaco. I just recently learned about Thunder Mountain, find it quite sobering and sad all the lives lost, and to think my parents lived in sight of the tipple where this happened. Thank you for this most informative website. |
| Name: | Norma (Harrison) Roberts |
| Name: | Charles Blevins |
| E-mail address: | Blevinschuck@aol.com |
| Comments: | I was born in Havaco and both my dad and grand dad were miners at Havaco. |
| Name: | DAVID E. PLATT |
| E-mail address: | SKYDIVER_942@MSN.COM |
| Comments: | TY FOR SHARING THE HORRIBLE ACCIDENTS HOW TRAUMATIC IT MUST HAVE BEEN TO THE SURVIVORS AND THE COMMUNITY |
| Name: | Betty Dotson Lewis |
| E-mail address: | lewis_betty@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.appalachianpower.com |
| Comments: | I think your website is wonderful. So much history, so many people's lives and so many beautiful stories.
I am trying very hard to capture stories as well not only of the miners but others who live the life of an Appalachian. |
| Name: | Johnny F. Cannoy, Sr. |
| E-mail address: | johnnyf.cannoysr@verizon.net |
| Comments: | D.A.Grubb:
Forgot to mention, thanks for the dedication of the Dreambook article to Claude Everette Stroupe, Sr. He was like a brother to me. I was raised by his father, James Walter Stroupe, whom was my uncle. |
| Name: | Johnny F. Cannoy, Sr. |
| E-mail address: | johnnyf.cannoysr@verizon.net |
| Comments: | Correction to my Dreambook signing. I was three years old at the time of the explosion, not four. Thanks. |
| Name: | Johnny F. Cannoy, SR. |
| E-mail address: | johnnyf.cannoysr@verizon.net |
| Comments: | Thanks for the Dreambook and the articles on the mine
explosions at Old Jed and Havaco. I was born and raised in Havaco. I was four years old when the January 15, 1946 explosion occured. I can remember the loud noise and tip- toeing to look out the broken windows in our house, to try and see what happened. I thought the world was coming to an end!! I remember the glass breaking inward into the house and broken glass on the floor. This is the only memory that I do have of the explosion, but I do remember it. |
| Name: | Bill Riley |
| E-mail address: | bill@pitwork.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.pitwork.net |
| Comments: | Thank you for sharing this web site with us. I have a
mining disater page on my site and the number of methane gas and coal dust explosions is never ending. The terrible loss of lives is heartbreaking. Best wishes, Bill. |
| Name: | Jim Jones |
| E-mail address: | ej1965@msn.com |
| Comments: | This is great my mom and brothers still live at Havaco Me and dad and all my brothers worked in Mines Jimmmy |
| Name: | Tammy |
| E-mail address: | tgrubb2@wvu.edu |
| Comments: | I think this page is a great tribute to the coal miners and their families that were involved. Something like this should have been done years ago. Thanks for caring enough to do it. |
| Name: | Dizzy Harris |
| E-mail address: | DizHarris@webtv.net |
| Comments: | David, I am proud to be the first to sign your guestbook and keep up your good work with the McDowell County site. E. L. "Dizzy" Harris from Shinbrier, Mercer County, West Virginia. |