Local Union 5497 of the United Mine Workers of America is associated with the memory of the 66 men who lost their lives in the Powhatan Mine Fire on July 5, 1944: William Hawley, Andrew Sichi, Charles Nelson, Raymond Jackson, Charles Kacir, Melvin Smith, Dorsey Hartline, James Gibson, Sherman Cordery, Wilson Brown, Denver Lee, Glenn Cook, Harry McGilton, Dewey Munas Jr., John Johnson, Hampton Matthews, James Jobb, Jacob Belleville, Ralph McGonagle, Wilson McFadden, Mike Harvey, Samuel Larkins, Andrew Punko, Robert Munas, Alex Ciszewski, Virgil Preston, Lester Marling, Matt Simonetti, John Yablonski, Odell Brown, Boyd Taylor, Ned Van Gosen, Edward Pletcher, Henry Hawley, Dain Bragg, Henry Johnson, Charles Stevens, Roy Jennewein, Myron Wright, Dwight Mellott, Clinton Corwin, Tony Wach, John Stewart, Virgil Newkirk, George Wisor, Tie P. Miller, Mike Chimley, James McConnaughey, Frank Reick, Edward Dennis, Aurel Vaught, John Warsnick, Dale Jones, John Burda, Pete Utka, William Zemmick, Wilbert Kneufner, Adam Gursky, Fletcher Rieues, Earl R. Gibson, Floyd W. Aberegg, Russell Caldwell, George Emery, Ralph Vilkoski, Charles U. Brown, and Marion G. Wingrove.