In the sense that this is a small world, I have an interesting personal
story about the Moweaqua Mine. My dad and my grandparents and uncles came
to the USA in 1912 from France. . My dad, Marcel Lebon, went to work in the
Springside Mine in Pana with his dad and brothers when he was only 15.
Later he worked in the greenhouses for many years, but when Mine 17 opened
in Pana about 1958, he went back to work in that mine.
My uncle Val told me some time after my dad died that he had never told me
before that he (my uncle) and my grandfather Lebon had worked in the
Moweaqua Mine for my grandfather, Bill Heriot, before my dad met my mother.
He said my grandpa Heriot was a good man to work for. My grandpa Lebon came
to the US because a friend sent him a post card telling him about the
Assumption Coal Mine and that there was work there. At that time, it was
the deepest mine in the state of Illinois.
----- Original Message -----
From: <BUCKYBARB(a)aol.com>
To: <INCLAY-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: [INCLAY] Moweaqua IL. miners killed
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge of the Mine Disaster.
I'll be
happy to include it in my Komar notebook for the family of coal miners.
Since the knowledge on this list is so great, would anyone know who to
write
to, to get a copy of a certificate that your relative was a coal
miner. I
have seen one of these but the girl was given it.
Thanks to everyone for your interest and help. Barbara Rector Hill
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