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Foyil, Jefferson

Age 22

Blue Diamond Mine

Miami News Record · Jan 21 1923 · Pg 5 · Col 1

Picher Oklahoma, Jan. 20.--Jefferson Foyil, a miner about 22 years old, died at the Picher hospital at 9:30 Friday night, following injuries received last Monday forenoon at the Blue Diamond Mine of the State Line Zinc Company, where he fell from a descending can. The body was taken to the morgue of the Todd undertaking company, of Picher. Funeral arrangements are pending word from his parents, located at Spiro Oklahoma. Note: Burial in the Short Mountain Cemetery, Cowlington, Le Flore County, Oklahoma.

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.