List
of River Men
Wrecking
Str Raymond Horner at the Walton Yard dock #6 West Elizabeth - May 2 -
1924
Wrecking Str
Boaz same place June 9 - 1924
Wrecking Str
Tom Dodsworth same place June 20 - 1924
Closed down at
the Ways July 23 - 1924
Closed down at
the Ways Feb 14 - 1925 and again through April 1925
Some names
of men I worked with an(d) River wore out... Some Steamboat men that are
gone:
Chas. (Jera)
Lynch, carpenter. Killed at Conneleys crossing May 15, 1905
Henry
Lambert, the best all around ship carpenter. Died Nov 6, 1911
Sam
Craighead, killed on Jeffersiding RR Dec 20, 1911
_ert
Secrist, Steam boat cook ( died ) Jan 11, 1913
Stewart
Pancost, skiff builder and ship carpenter April 11, 1913
_est
Bennett, ship carpenter Mar 7, 1908
Wm.
J. Morgan ship carpenter Jan 30, 1914
Steve
Howard Carp July 1914
Kern
Karr Carp Mar 12, 1915
John
Kincade Carp Dec 10, 1915
Wm.
Kennedy Watchman drowned Dec 18, 1915
O. B. (unckey)
McDonald Sept 7, 1916
Geo. W.
Wright Carp Dec 21, 1916
David
Kimes Carp Dec 21, 1916
Wm.
McElravy Calker June 8, 1917
Geo. W.
Wiegel Calker Feb 8, 1917
Jake Neel
Calker May 13, 1917
Geo.
Balsinger Carp May 18, 1917
Lawrence
Curry Carp Aug 2, 1917
Wm.
Campbell Sep 7, 1917
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