Roy Cummings
Page by Bob Leathers
Cummings Family Boys: Roy, Robert and Dennis (UPCCEM, Jan. 1932)
Cummings - A Family of Old Timers
The three Cummings brothers, Dennis, Roy and Robert have a total service record of eighty-seven years with The Union Pacific Coal Company, a record of which they as well as the Company may well be proud. In fact, their entire lives have been spent in the service of the Coal Company. Their father was an employee of the Company in old Carbon coming to Hanna when the first mine was opened there in 1889. Robert was the first child born in Hanna. The father and another brother lost their lives in the No. 1 Mine explosion. Mrs. Cummings still lives in Hanna.
Dennis, who has a record of thirty-six years of service, began work in 1894 and is now hoist engineer in No. 4 Mine.
Robert has served the Company twenty-six continuous years, except for the time he spent in the Army during the war. His three children are all in school in Hanna. He is an active member of The American Legion.
Roy is now assistant foreman in No. 4 Mine and has been with the company twenty-five years. He is married and has a son and daughter.
The picture of these three “Old Timers” was slipped from an album in Hanna. It, too, dates back a few years. (UPCCEM January 1931)
James Roy Cummings was born July 2, 1891 in Hanna, Wyoming to Michael and Margaret (O'Rouke) Cummings. He worked as a Brakeman on the Missouri Pacific Railrroad. He died May 26, 1977 at the age of 85 in Bowie, Maryland. and was buried in Bowie. (Ancestry)
Roy Cummings, a former Laramie resident, died at his home at Booie, Maryland, Thursday morning, May 26. He was born July 2, 1891 in Hanna, Wyoming, the son of Michael and Margaret O'Rourke Cummings. He served in the United States Army during World War I. He worked for a brief time for the Union Pacific Railroad before going to work for the Union Pacific Coal Co. in
Union Hanna, where he was night shift foreman until the mine closed in March of 1954. He married Gertrude Bliss in
1925. He was a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Hanna and later of St. Laurence too camone Church in Laramie. He was preceded in death by his parents and nine brothers and sisters. He is survived by his wife Gertrude, of Booie, Maryland; a son, Bliss, of Booie; daughter, Marylu, of Beaverton, Oregon; grandchildren Claire, Patrick and Kathleen of Booie and several nieces and nephews living in Wyoming. Interment was at Booie, Maryland. (Laramie Boomerang)