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Hi,
There is a John Wesley Wills buried at Fairview Cemetery in Linton, Indiana. Birth 1879
Death 1929.
Though he may have been involved in a fatal accident at the mine, it wouldn't have
been the Little Betty Mine Explosion as that occured 2 years later. Here is an excerpt
about it from the CDC website at:
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/mining/pubs/pdfs/2008-123.pdf.
"On January 28, 1931, 28 miners were killed at the Little Betty Mine, Dugger, IN,
when "roof falls released gas and pushed it.over.open lights of loaders"
Deborah Gentit
Wabash Valley Genealogy Society
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