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From: "Victoria Hospodar Valentine" <>
Subject: BRITT, DEVANEY, EDMUNDS, LAWRENCE, PARK Aug. 21, 1908 McDonald PA Record
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 07:31:23 -0500


BRITT, DEVANEY, EDMUNDS, LAWRENCE, PARK

John BRITT, one of the best known mine workers of this locality, died at
his home at Sturgeon Saturday, August 15, of stomach trouble. Mr. BRITT was
born in England August 10, 1853. When eighteen years of age he came to this
country and located near Mt. Carmel, engaging in coal mining. Afterwards he
went to Crenshaw where he worked as mine foreman for the New York, Lake Erie
and Western Coal Company. Mr. BRITT served as district president of the
United Mine Workers of America from 1884 to 1888 and resigned to take the
position of superintendent of Jumbo Mine No. 2 At Midway. July 18, 1893, he
went to Sturgeon as superintendent of Champion Mine. He worked there for
some years. For a time he has lived a retired life at his home at Sturgeon.
Mr. BRITT is survived by his wife and eleven children. They are: Mrs. Mary
FLOOD, wife of S. B. FLOOD of Sturgeon, John BRITT, Jr., of Knoxville, Pa.,
Elizabeth, Anna, Michael, Lawrence, Helen, Catherine, Gertrude, Edward and
William at home. He also leaves three brothers in Australia. The funeral
services were held in St. Patrick's Church, Noblestown, Wednesday morning.
Solemn High Mass of Requiem was conducted by Rev. Father COX assisted by
Rev. Father BRENNAN of Carnegie and Rev. Father CALLAHAN of Pittsburg. The
honorary pallbearers were George HARRISON of Columbus, Ohio, James HUGHES of
Athens, Ohio, James J. BOYLE and J. E. MCDONALD of Crafton, Pa., William
TURNER of Cambridge, Ohio, and James MCLAIN of Ligton, Pa., and the active
pallbearers were John GARDNER, Alex. MCDONALD, James MCGUIRE, Matthew
HERRON, Frank COLLINS, B. J. O'HAGEN. Interment was made in St. Patrick's
cemetery, Noblestown.

George, the two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. DEVANEY of Noblestown,
died Sunday August 16. The funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon by
Rev. M. R. HACKMAN of the Noblestown M. E. Church. Interment was made in
Robinson's Run cemetery.

Laura, the eleven-year-old daughter of the late Sol EDMUNDS, died at the
home of her mother on Belgian Hill on Wednesday, August 19, of dropsy. The
funeral will take place this afternoon.

The funeral services of the late Miss Ella LAWRENCE, who died at Atlanta,
Ga., where she went for the benefit of her health, were held Monday morning
from the residence of her brother, James LAWRENCE, at Houston. The LAWRENCE
family is well known in this locality. They formerly resided at Venice.

To be pinned beneath a heavy fall of slate and instantly crushed to death
was the fate of William PARK, a young Greek miner employed in the Jumbo
mine. The accident occurred Wednesday afternoon. The body was lifeless
when brought from beneath the mass of debris.


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