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From: "tots" <>
Subject: [Cmn-L] Fw: Welsh: died in Utah
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 16:07:56 +1000

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Taylor" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday 12 2000 12:14 AM
Subject: Welsh: died in Utah


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Robert Taylor
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 2:06 PM
>
>
> To all you esteemed writers & readers out there, greetings! Having been a
"Peeping Tom" for many weeks, I have now decided to come through the door.
I'm Bob and I live in the Swiss Alps, where all my surroundings should be
beautifully white. Alas! they are greener than "How green was my Valley."
>
> Two and a half years ago I visited my daughter in Utah and whilst there
took the opportunity to visit a place called Scofield, which I was
interested in and which was the scene of an appalling mine disaster on May
1st 1900
>
> Scofield, in Carbon County, Utah, USA is today a coal mining ghost town,
situated at 8000ft, with little more than 20 inhabitants, a number of still
decaying wooden shacks and a cemetery on the hillside. Wales was far from my
thoughts when I entered that cemetery. It is located in an area called
Pleasant Valley.
>
> At 10.15 a.m on May1st an explosion deep in No 4 Mine disturbed the calm
of the lovely countryside and within a short time 200 miners had been
killed, leaving behind in that small community, 107 widows and 268
fatherless children.
>
> 149 miners were buried in the hastily prepared hillside cemetery. Only 7
stone tombs remain and bear the following inscriptions:-
>
> 1.. Davis Daniel born Carmarthenshire 1840
> 2.. Davis Er(?) B born Treorchy 1879 May 11th
> 3.. Evans Richard T born Merthyr 1866 Sept 6th
> 4.. Jones Joseph born Llanfynydd aged 30
> 5.. Jones Levi born Glamorganshire 1866 Nov 25th
> 6.. Pugh William born Aberdare 1855 April 15th
> 7.. Wilson George born Unstone, Derbyshire 1874 Dec 2nd

> Little remains to mark the resting places of the 61 men from Finland or
any of the others who were interred that week, lest it be a small monument,
upon which is written these touching words:-
>
> Let not ambition mock their useful toil
> Their homely joys and destiny obscure
> Nor grandeur hear with disdainful smile
> The short and simple annals of the poor.
> TO THE UNKNOWN
>
> Within the cemetery, three other tombs bear these inscriptions:-
> John L Price born Brecon 1854 August 7th died Scofield
1910 Oct 29th
> and the wife of the above
> Ellen Davis born 1853 March 2nd died
1926 March 4th
> ___________________________________
> Roderick Davis born 1813 May 10th died 1903
Feb 15th
> and the wife of the above
> Ann Morris born Llanelly, Carmarthenshire 1820 Sept 3rd died
Scofield 1903 Feb 15th
> ______________________
> Eliza Mygroft born Cramlington, England. 1848 Sept 8th died
Scofield 1883 Oct 13th
> Wife of Matthew Pattinson
>
> If you would like more background information about Scofield at that time,
please contact me off-list.
>
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> "Life is what happens when you are making other plans"
> John Lennon
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