Wilburn Louis Bell

Birth: 25 Aug 1920
Steele, Pemiscot County, Missouri, USA
Death: 21 Dec 1951 (aged 31)
West Frankfort, Franklin County, Illinois, USA
Burial: Boner Cemetery

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Wilburn was killed in one of the deadliest mine explosion in U.S. history and one of the worst coal mining disasters in Illinois. 119 men were killed and of the 119 deaths, 111 women were left widowed and 176 children were left fatherless only four days before Christmas.

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Billie B Mosley

1923–1975 (m. 1941)

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