Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Brashear, John - 1889

Brashear, John, Trapper Boy
May 16, 1889, 2nd District, Smithton No. 1 Colliery, Westmoreland County.
Was fatally injured by a fall of roof coal and died in two hours and a half afterwards.  Age 14.

~ Deaths in the Bituminous Coal Districts 1888-1897, Volume I, Page 9

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