WV Coal History

As a memorial to those who lost their lives at Buffalo Creek, and as a way to ensure that their Legacy will live on many years after, I include their names in this book, to be remembered always. Names listed followed by age.

*Brookie Adkins, 31 *Lonnie Adkins, 7 * Mary Jane Adkins, 5
* David B. Adkins Sr., 27 * David B. Adkins Jr., 4 * Steven Albright, 17
*Sylvia Albright, 39 *Janice Bailey, 32 *Kimberly K. Bailey, 6
*Jason Bailey Jr., 11 *Rhoda Rene Bailey, 8 *Carla J. Bailey,18 months
*James Bailey Jr. , 16 *John H. Bailey, 58 *Eleanor Bailey, 44
*Milton Baker, 71 *Effie Baker, 68 *Joyce Bartram, 40
*Betty Lee Black, 51 *Edith Blankenship, 61 *Rebecca Broady, 15
*Donna Browning, 21 *Norman Browning, 3 *James Brunty, 82
*Dessie Butcher, 57 *Leonard Butcher, 66 *Ballard Carter, 36
*Janice H. Carter, 29 *Matthew Carter, 6 *Lillian S. Carter, 3
*Margaret L. Davis, 35 *Mary Jane Davis, 8 *Willie Dempsey, 42
*Aletha V. Dempsey, 38 *Berma Dickerson, 20 *James Dillion, 32
*Steven Dickerson,18 months *Thelma Dillion,36 *Curtis Dillion,10
*Sharon Dillion, 13 *Darla Dillion, 5 *Howard Dillion, 8
*Ruth Ann Elkins, 29 *Judy Fergusson, 27 *Connie Fergusson,18 months
*Martha Gunnels, 21 *David Gunnels, 3 *Jessie Gunnels, 1
*Etta P. Hatfield, 60 *Layton O. Hatfield, 50 *Ruth B. Hatfield, 53
*Steven Hatfield, 16 *Albert Hedinger, 34 *Angela Hopson, 2
*Margaret Y. Jarrell, 42 *Karen Jarrell, 16 *Patrick Jarrell, 24
*William L. Jarrell, 50 *Lottie May Jarrell, 45 *Andrew Johnston, 73
*Grace Kennedy, 71 *Gary M. King, 24 *Sharon A. Lester, 25
*Denise Lester, 3 *Norman Lester, 24 *Dennatta Lester, 5 to 7
*Opal Lester, 45 *Barry K. Lester, 15 *Rita J. Lester, 16
*Mary B. Marcum, 44 *Diana L. McCoy, 18 *Kimberly McCoy, 3
*Jesse Messer, 35 *Augusta Miller, 69 *Robert Murray, 71
*Wandell Osborne Sr., 37 *Jeanette Osborne, 35 *Regina Osborne, 12
*Carolyn Osborne,20 months *Geneva Osborne,11 *Wandell Osborne Jr.,15
*Henrietta Owens, 22 *Thomas Owens, 3 *Herbert Peters, 71
*Martha Peters, 71 *Callis Perry, 81 *Margie M. Price, 42
*Macie Queen, 54 *Otis Ramey, 49 *Mattie Ramey, 45
*Virgie A. Ramey, ? *Marvel Scarberry, 73 *Goldie Sipple, 38
*Anita Smith, 17 *Florencio Sosa, 65 *Mary M. Sosa, 46
*Gladys Staton, 25 *Kevin Staton, 1 *Della Trent, 69
*Johnny Trent, 32 *Gene Trent, 26 *Henry Trent, 49 *Wanda Trent,39
*Betty Vernatter, 4 *Thomas Vernatter, 65 *Ethel Vernatter, 65
*Roby L. Waugh, 45 *James L. Waugh, 11 *Grady M. Waugh,18
*Donald Waugh, 20 *Larry K. Wauch, 5 *April E. White, 11
*Dora Wiley, 60 *Richard Wiley, 78 *Frank Lee Workman, 69

And three unidentified babies.
Those still missing:
*Dorinda L. Adkins, 3 months *Samuel Carter, 20 months *Roscoe Clay,74
*James N. Davis, 2 *Nancy Hopson, 1 *Donald McCoy Jr.,18 months
and Kathy Waugh, 8 months old.

These are the ones who were wrongfully taken from us. Loved, cherished, missed forever.
May this disaster, created by man, become a learning tool so that we may never make the same tragic mistake again.
May we never forget that day and the days that followed. May we always see the faces of agony, pain and loss.
So that they may be a reminder of what WILL happen when we allow greed to replace common sense
and a responsibility to our fellow man.