Elko

Miner’s First Name:   Joseph
Miner’s Middle Name:   Robert
Miner’s Last Name:   Elko
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Birth Place of Miner:   Larksville, Pennsylvania
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Joseph had to leave school and go to work after his father, Andrew Elko, was killed in the mines.  Joseph was the oldest son in the family and was only 12 or 13 years old at the time.  He did not work for a coal company, but instead worked for an individual in what was known as a dog hole, finding small deposits of coal that the larger companies didn’t bother with.  He eventually experienced a mine cave in and stopped working in the mines after that.  As a result of working for an individual and not a coal company, my father, Joseph, never had any papers to prove he worked in the mines. When he later on in life attempted to collect Black Lung benefits, he was denied.  For that reason, I hope that his name would be added to the Anthracite Foundation’s Wall of Honor despite the fact that there is no record of that young boy working in a mine to help support his widowed mother and his 5 siblings.

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Author’s Name:   Lucille
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Relationship to Miner:   Daughter
Street Address:   359 Machell Ave.
City/Town:   Dallas
State:   PA
Zip:   18612
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