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Brasher, Charles Albert "Bert'

Age 38

Silver Fox Mine

Miami News Record · Sep 24 1922

Picher Oklahoma, Sept. 23.--Charles Albert"Bert' Brasher, 38, died at the Picher hospital at Picher at 6 this morning following an injury in an accident at the Silver Fox Mine, three miles northwest of Picher, at 3:45 Friday afternoon. The Mitchelson undertaking company of Commerce Oklahoma, had charge of the body. Funeral arrangements are not complete. The service will probably be held from his home at Commerce, Monday, and burial will be in Fairview cemetery between Chetopa and Melrose Kansas.

Brasher was tub hooker at the Silver Fox Mine. A boulder fell from an ascending can and struck him on the head, inflicting a skull fracture. He never regained consciousness at the hospital where he was taken in Todd's ambulance of Picher.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Montie Brasher, of Commerce; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brasher, who reside on a farm near Commerce, and one brother, John Brasher, who is expected to arrive from Hamilton Kansas, tonight. Note: Mitchelson funeral home, Commerce Oklahoma, stated that insurance was with Sherman-Ellis Insurance, Joplin Missouri

Miami News Record · Oct 25 1936 · Pg 12 · Col 1

Mrs. Vernie Brasher, administratrix of the estate of her husband, the late C. E. Brasher, received a money judgment totaling $3,451 from the Vinegar Hill Zinc Company in a Ottawa county Oklahoma district court at Miami opinion handed down late Friday by Judge Ad V. Coppedge.

C. E. Brasher died at Joplin Missouri in August following an accident at the defendant company's mine. The plaintiff alleged that her late husband's neck was broke in the fall of a boulder from the roof of a mine she stated was poorly trimmed. The administratrix, under terms of the settlement, will distribute the money, according to law. Mrs. Brasher has four children.

Disclaimer: If you search for these articles somewhere else, searches should be done by date in the city of Miami Oklahoma. The clippings have "Miami Newspapers, Miami Oklahoma." The paper changed names several times making it difficult to search by title. Most of the Hard Rock Lead and Zinc Fatalities newspaper clippings are from the personal files of I. D. Hulvey, former powderman in the Picher mine and then owner of the Hulvey Insurance Agency.