Mines & Oil Wells Disasters

MORGAN COUNTY, TENNESSEE MINES, MINE DISASTERS AND OIL WELLS Information gleaned from past issues of the MORGAN COUNTY PRESS AND MORGAN COUNTY NEWS AND OTHER PLACES January 1916    Twelve miners were killed in an explosion of mine #3 of the Dar Dour Coal & Coke Co.  at Catoosa.  Seventy Five men were in the mines. All escaped except those… Continue reading Mines & Oil Wells Disasters

Revolutionary War Soldiers

  REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS  OF MORGAN COUNTY  NAME STATE SERVED IN Michael Arnold II Ryle Rgt Pennsylvania Thomas Adcock North Carolina Henry Begley Virginia Daniel Blevins North Carolina Thomas Butler North Carolina John Craig North Carolina John Crenshaw Virginia William Davidson North Carolina/Virginia Gabriel Fry Virginia Meshack Green North Carolina Joseph Griffith Virginia     Samuel… Continue reading Revolutionary War Soldiers