{"id":1827,"date":"2014-04-30T10:52:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T15:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgantn\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2017-06-20T22:23:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T03:23:04","slug":"big-brushy-coal-coke-co-petros-tn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/big-brushy-coal-coke-co-petros-tn\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Brushy Coal and Coke Co."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/photoalbum\/FloydMitchell3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"364\" \/> <span style=\"color: #000000\">Here is the photo of my grandfather\u00a0<\/span><b style=\"color: #000000\">FLOYD K. MITCHELL<\/b><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0 (1883 &#8211; 1976)\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">far right and friends, apparently inside a mine at Big Brushy.\u00a0 My grandfather lived in Harriman for a short time around 1900 with his father and siblings.\u00a0 His father\u00a0<\/span><b style=\"color: #000000\">Henry Howard Mitchell<\/b><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0worked in the\u00a0 Coke ovens for some years in Marion County so maybe he was employed there as it&#8217;s not that far away or maybe they were just visiting.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">My grandfather was 17 years old in 1900.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">There are names written on the back of this photo but they are not legible.\u00a0<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000\">Photos and info courtesy of\u00a0<\/span>Kathleen<span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0Brown, granddaughter of Floyd Mitchell<\/span> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/photoalbum\/Miningphoto.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"681\" height=\"433\" \/> NEED HELP IDENTIFYING THIS MINE AND WHERE IT WAS LOCATED * * * * The names on the back of this photo refer to the numbers: 1. Floyd Mitchell 2. Mining Engineer 3. Assist Mining Engineer 4. Machinist 5. Roy Mitchell (my grandfather&#8217;s brother)<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000\">CROPPED SECTIONS OF THE ABOVE PHOTO<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/photoalbum\/Miningphoto3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/photoalbum\/Miningphoto4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <b style=\"color: #000000\"><i><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">WHO ARE WE? AND WHERE WAS THIS MINE LOCATED?<\/span><\/i><\/b><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the photo of my grandfather\u00a0FLOYD K. MITCHELL\u00a0 (1883 &#8211; 1976)\u00a0\u00a0far right and friends, apparently inside a mine at Big Brushy.\u00a0 My grandfather lived in Harriman for a short time around 1900 with his father and siblings.\u00a0 His father\u00a0Henry Howard Mitchell\u00a0worked in the\u00a0 Coke ovens for some years in Marion County so maybe he&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/big-brushy-coal-coke-co-petros-tn\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big Brushy Coal and Coke Co.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,14,83,866],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-photos","category-history","category-misc-records","category-towns-places","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3791,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions\/3791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}