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Coal Dust in their Blood, the Cycle is Broken As the title of this page would indicate most of
these men worked the coal mines in the Counties of Clairon, Cambria and Indiana,
Pa. William Hetrick the father of this Family Was born in 1829 and married
Margrate Jane Robinson in 1849 they had 10 children, four girls and six boys, and
was killed in 1890 at The Wildcat Iron Works Wildcat, Pa. His son Jonathan Jerry Alexander Hetrick married Clara Jane Keister
and they had seven
children, there were three girls and four boys. The boys all worked the mines.
Jonathan Was a coal miner most of his life and a preacher. His son James
Bertrude Hetrick I married Effie Graffius and they had 4 children, there was one girl
and three boys. The oldest boy died in 1899 and the girl was born in1899. James
Bertrude Hetrick I was a coal miner and worked at the Summit mines, lived in
Spangler and died there from Diphtheria in 1899. His son James Bertrude Hetrick
II married Beatrice Smith and they had 2 children there were two boys. James Bertrude
Hetrick II was a coal miner and worked at the Sample Run Clymer #1 mine until
Aug. 26 1926 when an explosion occurred that killed 44 men, James Bertrude
Hetrick II ( My Grand Father ) being one of them. Beatrice Hetrick died in 1931
at the Indiana Miners Hospital during an operation. My father Bertrude Irvin
Hetrick and his brother Charlse Kendall Hetrick were sent to the Malta Home Farm
for orphan children in 1931. They worked the farm in Granville, Pa. and went to school
in Lewistown, Pa. They were both drafted into the United
States Navy at the start of the second world war. When the war was over and they
were discharged from the United States Navy Charlse Kendall Hetrick went back to the
mines in Clymer, Pa. were he worked for his uncle Harvey Harmon Hetrick. He also
worked alongside of one of his other uncles Alvin W. Hetrick of Clymer, Pa. and
died in 1983 from black lung at Lewistown, Pa. He was married to Eleanor Fulton and
they had five
children; none of them went into the mines. Jerry Irvin Hetrick
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