John was born about 1867 in Danesmoor, Derbyshire and was thus in his early teens when he died. He was a son of Henry & Ann Beeson. John grew up with his family in the Danesmoor/Clay Cross area and lived near the Greyhound Pub. His siblings included Aaron, Samuel, Miriam, Bertha Ann, Mary & Elizabeth. John was schooled locally, and is described as a scholar on the 1881 census. However shortly after that he left school, as was commonplace at about that age at the time, and became a coal miner like his father and his two brothers. John had not been a miner long before he was killed, aged just 15, in 1882 in an accident at the Park House Pit in Clay Cross, where he was employed as a Driver. His father Henry and his brother Aaron were also killed in the same accident, an explosion that killed 45 men and boys.
John was born about 1867 in Danesmoor, Derbyshire and was thus in his early teens when he died. He was a son of Henry & Ann Beeson. John grew up with his family in the Danesmoor/Clay Cross area and lived near the Greyhound Pub. His siblings included Aaron, Samuel, Miriam, Bertha Ann, Mary & Elizabeth. John was schooled locally, and is described as a scholar on the 1881 census. However shortly after that he left school, as was commonplace at about that age at the time, and became a coal miner like his father and his two brothers. John had not been a miner long before he was killed, aged just 15, in 1882 in an accident at the Park House Pit in Clay Cross, where he was employed as a Driver. His father Henry and his brother Aaron were also killed in the same accident, an explosion that killed 45 men and boys.
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"This monument is in memory of the forty five men and boys who lost their lives in an explosion at Park House Pit, Clay Cross November 7 1882 and was erected by their fellow workmen and the public 1884."
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