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1900's in Coal Hill, Arkansas
In 1908, Eveline died at the age of 75 or 80 years old. Eveline had been with the Weathers family since she was a girl. She had lived the
last few years with Mary Susan. It is not known where she was buried but I think it was either at the
colored cemetery south of town or on
the hill above the bottoms.
The next few years Charley worked in the mines in the winter and farmed in the summer. Coal was used to heat
with in the winter and
wasn’t needed in the summer. When Charley worked at the Rafter mine he had to be at the
mine at 5 in the morning. He had to get up early to
walk to blue hill where the mine was located. In 1908, during a storm, lightning struck the schoolhouse. Again it burned down and had to be rebuilt. This time it
was built where the
present school is today. It wasn’t completed until the fall term of 1909. The children got their
education in houses around town. Different
grades in different houses. |
