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Coal Miners Memorial IL473 |
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 Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz
 Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz
John L. Lewis President UMWA 1920-1991
| ORIENT #2 MINE
| U. M. W. A. |
COAL MINERS MEMORIAL IN MEMORY OF THE 119 MINERS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE ORIENT #2 MINE EXPLOSION ON DECEMBER 21ST 1951.
BENTON- WEST CITY Arthur Adams Bill Akins Fru Austin Roy B. Beaty Lawrence Bell Wm. W. Bell Carroll Bridges Aston Lee Bufford Paul Virgil Dollins Joseph L. Fitzpatrick Harry Gunter Robert Hines Audrey Huffstutler Roy Hutchins John Kucewesky Lafet Upsey Wallace Miller Warren Mitchell George Novak Earl Overturf Shelby Pasley Andy Peska Thomas Pierson Vallie Pritchett Joe Revak Robert Rice Charles Rose Thomas Runnels
| Wm. D. Sanders Chalon Howard Smith Charles Southern Silas Stewart Hearstel Summers Paul Taylor John D. Thomas Louis A. Trapper Charles H. Whitlow Carl Williams
BUCKNER Earl Payne
CARTERVILLE Rivers Ashmore
CHRISTOPHER Guy Rice
ELKVILLE Earl R. Rees
HERRIN Paul Coats Claude Roland
JOHNSON CITY Oscar Bartley James WM Fairbanks John Farkas
| Archie Ferbus John E. Haynes Pete Petroff Carrol Stubblefield Alberic Vancauwelaert Walter L. Woodward
LOGAN Estel James Bradley REV Oral Bradley Lonnie J. Cairel
MACEDONIA Guy Johnson
MARION Charles E. Boyd Ralph Kent Clyde Moses
PITTSBURG Clyde Dupree
SESSER Clarence Eubanks Rolla Jones Sam Montgomery
THOMPSONVILLE John F. Bennett
| Roy Westray James H. Williams
WEST FRANKFORT Charles Bartoni Wilburn Bell James L. Black James O. Cantrell Thomas Clark Andrew Cunningham John Dobruff George R. Dunlap Frank Eurard James Fowler Henry Otis Harper Herschel C. Harris Roscoe Karnes Otis Lewis Mynett Lockhart Bill McDaniel John Matelic Claude Milligan Harry Morthland Edward Munday Roy L. Neibel R. L. Newell Max P. Nolen Marion Odle John Polic George Pollock
| John Quayle Joseph Quayle Alexander Ramsay Ellis Reach, JR. Ellis Reach, SR. Tom Roberts John Sadoski, JR. Stanley Sadusky Mike Senkus Charles R. Smith Earl H. Smith George R. Smith Wm. R. Smith Leon Summers Ted Tapley Howard Wall Max Wawrzyniak B.R. Williams W.E. Wilson Wm. Zell Yates Victor Younkin Louis Zanzuchi Joe Zeboski
WHITTINGTON Burton Spencer Wayne Spencer
ZEIGLER Jesse Connor |
AND ALL OTHERS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN AREA COAL MINES. Dedicated December 21, 1958; Franklin Coal Miners Memorial Committee: Bobby Baker, Robert D. Burnett, Ross Cockrum, Kenneth Lampley, Lee R. Mumbower, Gerald Owens, Ed Perry, Sr. Main St. & Pope St., Municipal Bldg lawn, Benton, Franklin County Illinois
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