Interview with Lester Abel
Interview with Lester Abel. What did the people think when the company started selling the houses? There was different opinions, see the union was here at that time. Some of the head officials of the union thought the company was trying to put something on them. They advised the men not to buy the houses. The […]
Janes Custody
The Pound Gap Massacre happened on the 14th of May 1892, it would be the 19th before Jane told Serah Blevins that Doc Taylor, and the Fleming brothers had been the ones to attack them.
Interview with Jess Bates
Interview with Jess Bates When we asked Judge Bates where he was born, he told us he was born at Hindman, Kentucky. His father was Robert — “Old Man Bates.” They moved to Rock House when he was two months old below the Deane, Hendrix mines. His grandfather was one of the first settlers in this region. He […]
A Brief History of Jenkins Ky
In the fall of 1910, the Consolidation Coal Company, (known as Consol), purchased one hundred thousand acres of coal lands in Letcher County
Interview with David Zegeer
Dave Zegeer and his wife rode the S.V.&E. railroad into Jenkins in 1946. He started work as a surveyor for CONSOL but eventually rose to Division Superintendent for the Beth-Elkhorn Coal Company.
