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On December 6, 1907, the Monongah coal mine disaster took the lives of miners and left behind widowed wives and mothers whose sorrow and endurance remained central to the community’s memory. Remembered as beloved widows of the miners who lost their lives, they were long gone but forever held in people’s hearts, their grief and loss evoked through the ghostly sound of pickaxes in the shuttered mine.
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Monongah, West Virginia · United States
