Hamby-Seiber Family

HAMBY-SEIBER FAMILIES Sam Hamby, Sally Ann’s dad, girl on the right side Sally Ann’s dau, Lizzy, girl on the left- Pleasant Wiley Seibers, dau Maxine my grandfather Pleasant Seiber step-g.mother, Sally Ann Hamby Courtesy of Mary Lyles

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

Bunch, Laura Byrge

Miss Laura Byrge Bunch  daughter of Henry Byrge and Charolotte West 104 yrs. old in 2005 bn. 10 Mar 1901 *BUNCH, LAURA, 105, of Coalfield, died Monday, Jan. 15, 2007, at her home. Born March 19, 1901, in Devonia, she lived there the first years of her marriage before relocating to Michigan, where she gave… Continue reading Bunch, Laura Byrge