| Birth: | unknown | | Death: | unknown |  The Coal Glen Mine Disaster was the worst industrial accident in North Carolina history. Though more recent North Carolina incidents such as the flash fire at the Imperial Food Products Plant in Hamlet on Septmber 3, 1991, which killed 25, are more in the public consciousness, the Coal Glen Disaster killed 53 men, made 38 women widows, left 79 children fatherless, made Farmville a ghost town, and virtually put an end to coal mining in North Carolina.
List of the dead (known grave locations are linked):
Henry Alston Johnnie Alston Lewis H. Alston Francis Anderson (Ragland, AL) Geo. Millard Fillmore Anderson (Ragland, AL) David Barr (Johnsonville, SC) Thomas C. "See" Buchanan John Burger (Bethune, SC) William E. Byerly Reuben Chalmers (Ragland, AL) Wilson Chesney June Cotton Thomas Newton Cotten J.B. Curd (Ragland, AL) Clifford (B.) Davis (Ragland, AL) Edward Dillingham (High Point, NC) Walter (D.) Dillingham (High Point, NC) Henry Grady Hall Elmer Hayes Isaac Hays (Cumnock, NC) Elijah Hill (Cumnock, NC) Lee Hodge (VA) Archie L. Holland Albert Holly (Cumnock, NC) Wesley Howard (Orangeburg, SC) Dan B. Hudson Joe Hudson Will Irick (Fort Motte, SC) Claud Van Johnson Nathan R. Johnson Manly Lambert (Gulf, NC) John Edward Laubscher A.F. Marlin (VA) William Moore (SC) James Nabors (Greensboro, NC) Samuel Napier Arthur Poe Hollis Richardson Zeff E. Riner John Shaw (SC) James Spruill A.L. Stopes (MD) H.W. Sullivan (High Point, NC) Charles H. Watson James Williams Robert Williams David J. Wilson Wade Wilson (Cumnock, NC) Charles L. Wood Claud Wood (Ragland, AL) James Wright (Rosindale, NC) Russell Wright (Rosindale, NC) Theodore Wright (Rosindale, NC) Thomas N. Wright (Rosindale, NC)
Survivors:
Howard N. Butler, manager. Joe Richardson, machinist.
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Farmville Cemetery
Farmville (Chatham County) Chatham County North Carolina, USA | Created by: Paul F. Wilson Record added: Sep 15, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 29824142 |
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