Old Carbon and Hanna Death and Burial Records - Alphabetical
Page by Bob Leathers with contributions from Joyce McCartney, Gary Beaver and Bill Becker
Index
Source Code
(Inquest) Official Inquest Reports, (MIR) Mine Inspector Reports, (MM) Miner Monuments in Hanna,
(Headstone) cemetery headstone, (BL) Bob Leathers, (JB) John Baldwin
(NA) Nancy and Victor Anderson, (LK) Lynne Kuderko, (AR) Andy Ruskanen and (AO) Ayako Ohara,
(UPCCEM) Union Pacific Coal Company Employee's Magazine
(Inquest) Official Inquest Reports, (MIR) Mine Inspector Reports, (MM) Miner Monuments in Hanna,
(Headstone) cemetery headstone, (BL) Bob Leathers, (JB) John Baldwin
(NA) Nancy and Victor Anderson, (LK) Lynne Kuderko, (AR) Andy Ruskanen and (AO) Ayako Ohara,
(UPCCEM) Union Pacific Coal Company Employee's Magazine
More at: Men Injured in the Hanna Mines
First it was Old Carbon - 1869 to 1902 - then it was Hanna - 1889 to 2023.
The two coal camps mined coal at the same time for about 13 years - 1889 to 1902.
The Carbon and Hanna cemeteries are both experiencing new burials.
The two coal camps mined coal at the same time for about 13 years - 1889 to 1902.
The Carbon and Hanna cemeteries are both experiencing new burials.
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Ichikawa, Seikichi
Cemetery: Hanna
Headstone: Japanese translation below:
福井縣人
市川清吉之墓
明治四拾貳年八月十一日死去
Plot 303.21 (in fenced area)
Translation:
Ichikawa, Seikichi
From Fukui prefecture
Died on 8/11/1909 (AO)
Cemetery: Hanna
Headstone: Japanese translation below:
福井縣人
市川清吉之墓
明治四拾貳年八月十一日死去
Plot 303.21 (in fenced area)
Translation:
Ichikawa, Seikichi
From Fukui prefecture
Died on 8/11/1909 (AO)
Ikegami, Gitsuji (Monument) Aka: Ikegami, G. (MIR) (MM)
Cemetery: Hanna
Headstone: Translation below.
Plot 303.1
故池上實治之墓
明治十一年三月三日生
昭和三年九月二十一日卒
享年五十一戈
熊本縣上益城郡甲佐町字大町
Translation:
Ikegami, Gitsuji
Born on 3/3/1878
Died on 9/21/1928
Age: 50 y's, 6 m's, 18 d
From Azaoomachi, Kousamachi Kamimashikigun, Kumamoto Prefecture (AO)
Note: September 21, 1928. Findings of investigation of the accident which occurred in the No. 2 mine, Hanna, property of the Union Pacific Coal Company, and resulted in the death of G. Ikegami, Japanese. We found that G. Ikegami was employed in the 11th Entry in Room 4 as a miner. He was working close to the face of the room shoveling and throwing coal into the chute when a large piece of rock, 8 feet by 5 feet, by 13 inches fell from the roof and caught him squarely causing instant death. (MIR)
Note: Fatal: Miner [G. Ikegami] had walked up to working face (pillar) and was about to shovel coal in chute when he was caught and buried by a fall of coal and rock. Death was instantaneous. It was an unavoidable accident.
(UPCCEM, November 1928)
Note: G. Ikegami, a miner at Hanna, was struck by a fall of coal and killed instantly. This was one of the few unavoidable accidents of the month. Mr. Ikegami's death was the second at Hanna during the year and the fourth to occur on the system. (UPCCEM, November 1928)
Note: The funeral of G. Ikegami, Japanese, killed by a fall of rock in No. 2 Mine, was held at the Methodist Church on Sunday, September 23rd. The deceased was 50 years of age and had lived in Hanna a number of years. He leaves to mourn his loss a wife and daughter in Japan. Interment was made in the Hanna cemetery.
Note: Gitsuji Ikegami was killed in the Union Pacific Coal Company's No. 2 mine in Hanna. He was buried in Plot 303.1 in the Hanna cemetery. (BL)
Cemetery: Hanna
Headstone: Translation below.
Plot 303.1
故池上實治之墓
明治十一年三月三日生
昭和三年九月二十一日卒
享年五十一戈
熊本縣上益城郡甲佐町字大町
Translation:
Ikegami, Gitsuji
Born on 3/3/1878
Died on 9/21/1928
Age: 50 y's, 6 m's, 18 d
From Azaoomachi, Kousamachi Kamimashikigun, Kumamoto Prefecture (AO)
Note: September 21, 1928. Findings of investigation of the accident which occurred in the No. 2 mine, Hanna, property of the Union Pacific Coal Company, and resulted in the death of G. Ikegami, Japanese. We found that G. Ikegami was employed in the 11th Entry in Room 4 as a miner. He was working close to the face of the room shoveling and throwing coal into the chute when a large piece of rock, 8 feet by 5 feet, by 13 inches fell from the roof and caught him squarely causing instant death. (MIR)
Note: Fatal: Miner [G. Ikegami] had walked up to working face (pillar) and was about to shovel coal in chute when he was caught and buried by a fall of coal and rock. Death was instantaneous. It was an unavoidable accident.
(UPCCEM, November 1928)
Note: G. Ikegami, a miner at Hanna, was struck by a fall of coal and killed instantly. This was one of the few unavoidable accidents of the month. Mr. Ikegami's death was the second at Hanna during the year and the fourth to occur on the system. (UPCCEM, November 1928)
Note: The funeral of G. Ikegami, Japanese, killed by a fall of rock in No. 2 Mine, was held at the Methodist Church on Sunday, September 23rd. The deceased was 50 years of age and had lived in Hanna a number of years. He leaves to mourn his loss a wife and daughter in Japan. Interment was made in the Hanna cemetery.
Note: Gitsuji Ikegami was killed in the Union Pacific Coal Company's No. 2 mine in Hanna. He was buried in Plot 303.1 in the Hanna cemetery. (BL)
Ikonen, John (Inquest) (MIR); Aka: Ikonen, J. (MM)
Headstone: None
Born: 1886
Died: Mar. 28, 1908
Age: 22 y's
Hanna Monument: At the top of Hanna No. 1 Hill stands a Memorial Monument dedicated to the men who lost their lives in the explosions of the Union Pacific Coal Company's No. 1 Mine in Hanna. The Monument also marks the area where 28 of the men - like John Ikonen - were killed, but not recovered and their bodies remain at the bottom of the mine.
Note: John Ikonen worked as a Rollerman in the No. 1 mine. On Saturday, March 28th, while the mine was idle, a fire crew consisting of 18 men including John entered the Number 1 mine to put out a fire burning in entry number 10. The mine exploded about three in the afternoon killing all the men in the fire crew. A rescue crew was organized and entered the mine to search for survivors. A second explosion occurred the same day about ten thirty in the evening killing another 41 miners. John's body was not found it is still at the bottom of the No. 1 mine. (BL)
More at: Hanna Miner Monument
More at: Hanna Mine Explosion Monument on Hanna No. 1 Hill
Headstone: None
Born: 1886
Died: Mar. 28, 1908
Age: 22 y's
Hanna Monument: At the top of Hanna No. 1 Hill stands a Memorial Monument dedicated to the men who lost their lives in the explosions of the Union Pacific Coal Company's No. 1 Mine in Hanna. The Monument also marks the area where 28 of the men - like John Ikonen - were killed, but not recovered and their bodies remain at the bottom of the mine.
Note: John Ikonen worked as a Rollerman in the No. 1 mine. On Saturday, March 28th, while the mine was idle, a fire crew consisting of 18 men including John entered the Number 1 mine to put out a fire burning in entry number 10. The mine exploded about three in the afternoon killing all the men in the fire crew. A rescue crew was organized and entered the mine to search for survivors. A second explosion occurred the same day about ten thirty in the evening killing another 41 miners. John's body was not found it is still at the bottom of the No. 1 mine. (BL)
More at: Hanna Miner Monument
More at: Hanna Mine Explosion Monument on Hanna No. 1 Hill
Hanna Mine Explosion Monuments on Hanna No. 1 Hill. (Image by Bob Leathers. Sept. 2023)
Memorial Monument to Mine Explosion Victims (Image by Bob Leathers)
Irene, Charles O.
Cemetery: Hanna
Headstone: "1918 - 1950"
Plot: 344
Born: 1918
Died: 1950
Age: 32 y's
Cemetery: Hanna
Headstone: "1918 - 1950"
Plot: 344
Born: 1918
Died: 1950
Age: 32 y's
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Irene, Myrtle (Tanfield)
Cemetery: Hanna
Headstone: "1923 - 1993"
Plot: 344
Born: 1923
Died: 1993
Age: 70 y's
Cemetery: Hanna
Headstone: "1923 - 1993"
Plot: 344
Born: 1923
Died: 1993
Age: 70 y's
(Image by Bob Leathers)
Irene, Sharon K.
Cemetery: Hanna
Headstone: "Jan. 22, 1942 - Dec. 28, 1942"
Plot: 344
Born: Jan. 22, 1942
Died: Dec. 28, 1942
Age: 11 m's, 6 d's
Cemetery: Hanna
Headstone: "Jan. 22, 1942 - Dec. 28, 1942"
Plot: 344
Born: Jan. 22, 1942
Died: Dec. 28, 1942
Age: 11 m's, 6 d's
(Image by Bob Leathers)
Isaac, William (MM)
Cemetery: Carbon
Born: Unknown
Died: 1874 in Carbon (MM)
Died: 1875 in Carbon (NA)
Age: Unknown
Note: William Isaac was killed in the Union Pacific's No. 1 mine in Carbon in 1875 from a cave-in. He was buried in a marked grave in the Carbon cemetery. (NA)
Note: The sad accident by which William Isaacs and Martin Kain lost their lives a few days ago, cast a feeling of gloom over the entire community from which it has not yet rallied. Life in the coal mines after an accident of this kind seems precarious, and the grimy, hard-fisted fellows who go down every morning to dig fuel for the upper world certainly deserve the grateful thanks of us who have nothing to do but to sit in our houses and burn it. Both Isaacs and Kain were old members of the fraternity of Old Fellows and were buried by Carbon Lodge, which turned out in force accompanied by a large number of citizens. (Laramie Daily Sun, December 6, 1875)
More at: Hanna Miner Monument
Cemetery: Carbon
Born: Unknown
Died: 1874 in Carbon (MM)
Died: 1875 in Carbon (NA)
Age: Unknown
Note: William Isaac was killed in the Union Pacific's No. 1 mine in Carbon in 1875 from a cave-in. He was buried in a marked grave in the Carbon cemetery. (NA)
Note: The sad accident by which William Isaacs and Martin Kain lost their lives a few days ago, cast a feeling of gloom over the entire community from which it has not yet rallied. Life in the coal mines after an accident of this kind seems precarious, and the grimy, hard-fisted fellows who go down every morning to dig fuel for the upper world certainly deserve the grateful thanks of us who have nothing to do but to sit in our houses and burn it. Both Isaacs and Kain were old members of the fraternity of Old Fellows and were buried by Carbon Lodge, which turned out in force accompanied by a large number of citizens. (Laramie Daily Sun, December 6, 1875)
More at: Hanna Miner Monument
Died in Carbon No. 1 Mine - Buried in a Marked Grave
(Image by Gary Beaver)