James Conroy burial - crushed in mine accident Pennsylvania28 November 1909

[River Tyne Lass]

I was wondering if anyone could let me know of the burial place of James Conroy who died through being crushed in a mine accident on 28 November 1909.  He was born in Northumberland, England on 19 February 1853 and was baptised at St Francis Xavier, Cheeseburn Grange, Northumberland on 22 May 1853.  He married Rose Rook sometimes spelled as Rorke at 'Our Blessed Lady & St Joseph, Brooms, Durham in 1876.  They had a lot of children - four born in England, one in Scotland and the rest in America.  The family eventually settled in Pleasant Unity, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, I believe.  James was the younger brother of my Great Grandfather who was called Simon Peter Conroy.  Their parents were James Conroy and Elizabeth Fitzpatrick.  I would be extremely grateful for any more information of James' life when he was living in America.  His brother Joseph married someone called Bridget Conway and they also moved to America with their daughter Mary.   The other siblings of James remained in England.

[*Sandra*]

Death Cert shows burial place - albeit not to clear. Cannot put attachments on the look up board - see here................

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=775594.new#new

When and where was brother Joseph born ?

Sandra

[*Sandra*]

Familysearch has lots of US Census and other records


Pleasant Unity, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania 1900

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3HS-V3B

James Conroy   Born Eng. Married 24 years.
Rose Conroy   Born Eg. Married 24 years. Had 9 children and 9 survive.
Michael Conroy   Born Eng.
Thomas Conroy   Born Eng.
James Conroy   Born Eng.
Mary Conroy   Born Eng.
Catherine Conroy Born Illinois   
Rose A Conroy   Born Alabama
Elizabeth Conroy Born PA   
Joseph Conroy   Born PA
Bridget Conroy   Born PA
William J Anderson

transcribed as Courgy on the anc site in 1910

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MG88-VFY

Rose Courgy   51
James Courgy   24 Joseph Courgy   12
Bridget Courgy   10 - John Edward Courgy 8 - William Courgy   5

Sandra

[*Sandra*]

http://www.whitepages.com/ would help you locate any living relatives given in some of the obituaries.


Son Michael J Conroy 29 November 1877 - 17 April 1943

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Burial Oak Grove Cemetery  Uniontown Fayette County Pennsylvania.

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=55713086&ref=acom

wife - Sarah E Blanch Conroy 1884 - 1963

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=55713056

Sandra

Added - Obituary here

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=775594.new#new

Death Notice - Evening Standard (Uniontown, Pennsylvania) -   Sarah Ellen Conroy - Friends will be received in the T. Leonard Sangston Funeral Home, McClellandtown until Wednesday at 2 p.m. the hour of service. Dr. Ear. P Confer will officiate. Interment will be in the family plot, Oak Grove Cemetery, Uniontown.

son - James Edward CONROY (1910-1976) - The Morning Herald, Uniontown, PA, Monday, June 28, 1976

CONROY, JAMES EDWARD—Age 65 years of 42066 Oberlin Road, Elyria, Ohio, died Saturday, June 26, 1976 at his home. He was born in Ligioner, Pa., June 7, 1910, a son of the late Michael and Sarah Ellen Blanch Conroy. He is survived by his wife, Mary Kneigh Conroy and stepchildren. Services will be held in the Wayne Wright Funeral Home, Route 57, Elyria, Ohio.......

http://www.pagenweb.org/~fayette-obits/obits/d14.htm

Daughter - Alice Conroy - 16 December 1907 - January 1988
SSDI - Last Residence 15401 Uniontown, Fayette, Pennsylvania.

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Burial LaFayette Memorial Park  Brier Hill Fayette County Pennsylvania.

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=128182029&ref=acom

Catherine/Kathryn Dollar - 13 February 1915 - March 1979 -
Last Residence 15084 Tarentum, Allegheny, Pennsylvania.

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Burial Greene County Memorial Park  Waynesburg Greene County Pennsylvania.

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=50754291&ref=acom

husband -  John Sloan Dollar 1911 - 2010 - with photograph and obituary.

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=49613572

Grace Conroy Connelly - passed away 14 November 1952 - aged 35 years.

Obituary on the other thread - 14 November 1952 - Morning Herald (Uniontown, Pennsylvania)

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=775594.new#new

William Conroy - 6 November 1922 - 13 June 2002
Last Residence   Uniontown, 15401, Fayette, Pennsylvania.

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Burial Oak Lawn Cemetery  Uniontown Fayette County Pennsylvania.

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=54642642&ref=acom

Emma Jean Wydra - 31 December `1927 Lockport, Pennsylvania   - 3 August 2012 Orland Park, Cook, Illinois.

Obituary - Emma Wydra

http://www.oneilfuneralhome.com/home/obituary/1550733

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Burial Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery  Elwood Will County Illinois.
Plot: Section 10 Site 724

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=96141863&ref=acom

husband - Adam A. Wydra 1919 - 2003

Adam A. Wydra 1919 - 2003


https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=37459109

Virginia L Constable - 19 March 1925 - 15 August 2013

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Burial LaFayette Memorial Park  Brier Hill Fayette County Pennsylvania.

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=115155247&ref=acom

husband - William Michael Constable 1922 - 1997 - with photograph.

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=61287194

Rose Ann Conroy Rozzi - 1912 - 1955

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Burial Masontown Cemetery  Masontown Fayette County Pennsylvania.

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=161151431&ref=acom

husband - Louis Rozzi - 21 July 1912 - December 1986
SSDI - Last Residence 15461 Masontown, Fayette, Pennsylvania.

[*Sandra*]

Pennsylvania, Marriages, 1852-1968 - Mary Conroy - marriage 22 March 1913 - Uniontown, Fayette, Pennsylvania - Thomas Winfield Landman.

Uniontown Ward 2, Fayette, Pennsylvania 1920

Thomas Landman 30 Mary Landman   32
Ruth Landman   2 Elmer Landman   4

North Union, Fayette, Pennsylvania 1930

Thomas W Landman   40 Mary A Landman   42
Elmer L Landman 14 -  Ruth R Landman 12 - Sara J Landman   7

North Union, Fayette, Pennsylvania 1940

Thomas Landman 58 Mary Landman   52
Sara Landman   17

Thomas Landman - 1 October 1889 - December 1965



Daughter - Ruth Regina Landman / Ruth Regina Cole - 15 June 1917 - Uniontown Fa, Pennsylvania 16 February 1996
Parents - Thomas W Landman - Mother: Mary A Conroy.

SSDI - Last Residence 15431 Dunbar, Fayette, Pennsylvania.

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Burial Franklin Cemetery  Dunbar Fayette County Pennsylvania.

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=89510848&ref=acom

husband -  Jesse A. Cole 1916 - 1974

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5698023

Son of Thomas and Mary Landman - - Elmer Landman - 25 August 1915 - April 1987 -
SSDI - Last Residence: 15320 Carmichaels, Greene, Pennsylvania.

Sandra

[Genealiza]

Obituary for James Conroy:

The Morning Herald
Uniontown, Pennsylvania
30 Nov 1909, page 1

SHAMROCK ENGINEER MEETS DEATH

When Found Body was Badly Mangled by Belt Which Runs Fan Shaft

Falls into Tiny Hole

Heart Trouble Thought to Have Caused Collapse--Inquest Not Considered Necessary--Funeral Will be Held at Late Home on Wednesday

     In some inexplicable manner, James Conroy, night engineer at the fan house at Shamrock works, met his death in a terrible manner some time Sunday night.  He was in the engine room by himself at the time and there is no plausible theory advanced as to the manner in which he was killed.
     He was sitting on a chair close to a hole in the floor through which the belt runs to the fan shaft.  This hole is about 16 X 30 inches and when found his body was tightly wedged underneath the floor.  His cap was on the floor nearby and it is supposed he was overcome with an attack of heart trouble and fell headlong into the hole.  When found, his left arm was cut to the bone in several places and the left side of his body was badly bruised and lacerated, in addition to internal injuries which undoubtedly caused instantaneous death.
     Deputy coroner, George Evans, was notified and on investigation, he decided that an inquest was necessary.
     Conroy was 60 years of age and is survived by a wife and nine children, six at home and three married.  The funeral will occur from his late home at Shamrock sometime tomorrow.

[River Tyne Lass]

Hi Genealiza,

Thank you so much for this article.  I really appreciate your kindness in typing this all up.  Poor James!  What a way to go.  His family must have been devastated. 

James father was an earthenware seller and besom maker.  However, the succeeding generations on this side right down to my own Father were all miners.  This was such hazardous work, and this male line in my family often seemed to suffer from ill health because of mining or have early death or horrific mine accidents.  James' brother Thomas broke his leg in the Wallsend mine in 1923 and this was reported in a local paper.  My own Father nearly lost his life in a horrific mine accident in the 1960s and needed months away in rehabilitation after his recovery.  I can still recall the coal blackened face of one of my Dad's fellow miners who came to the front door on his bicycle to inform us what had happened.   I am so glad that my Dad was of the last of the miners' generation.

Thank you so much again.  The information is a real insight on what became of this poor ancestor of mine.  God bless him and may he rest in peace.

[*Sandra*]

Interesting and more informative explanation to the accident of James - great find Genealiza. Shame it didn't tell us where interment was though - fingers crossed they are in the family plot at Oak Grove Cemetery Uniontown.

Daughter Beatrice Conroy/Steigler born 3 April 1898 - 2 June 1951 Connellsville, Fayette, Pennsylvania.

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Burial Oak Grove Cemetery  Uniontown Fayette County Pennsylvania.

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=128785759&ref=acom

Sandra

added - he Daily Courier, June 2, 1951, Mrs. Beatrice Steiger, 53, of Lemont Furnace died at Connellsville State Hospital at 4:48 in the morning. She had been admitted May 19th.

Obituary The Daily Courier, June 4, 1951

Mrs. Pete Steiger

Mrs. Beatrice Steiger,53, of Lemont Furnace, died in Connellsville Hospital Saturday. She was born April 3, 1898, a daughter of the late James and Rose Conroy. Deceased was a member of the Ladies Auxiliary of L. O. O. Moose of Uniontown.
Surviving are her husband, Pete Steiger; three sons, William Landman of Mount Independence and Ronald and Robert at home; a daughter, Mrs. Paticia Roebuck of Fort Lewis, Wash; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Landman of Dunbar and Mrs. Catherine Matthews of Footedale, and two brothers, Joe Conroy of Filbert and William Conroy of Nemacolin.
The funeral will be held Tuesday morning with the cortege meeting at the Burhans funeral home at Dunbarat 9 o'clock folowed by requiem high mass in St. Cecilia's R. C. Church at Lemont Furnace with Rev. John Blazic officiating. Interment will be in Oak Grove Cemetery.

[River Tyne Lass]

Hi Sandra,

You are a marvel!  I can't believe how much information you and Genealiza have been able to find for me in just a matter of hours since my first post!

Thank you both so much from the bottom of my heart.

Best Wishes