Children: Marvina Gail Robbins Wright Bauer, Dennis Ray Wright, Jackie Faye Wright Nunez, Stephen Wright, William Argus Wright, Darrin Lee Wright, Kimberly Wright Alexander, Tommy Wade Wright, David Glenn Wright, and Jill Millard Wright.
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Insull Coal Camp was divided into old and new sections and had a grade school (1-6) but that closed in 1955 and he attended first grade at Blackstar which had grades 1-12. The basket ball court was outside. The new section was at the bottom of the old section, across the swing-bridge over Puckett's Creek. Insull had its own commissary where miners could spend their script they earned as wages, a bath house for the miners, a large tipple and a multiple railroad track system for bring in empty gons and removing gons loaded with different sized coal. Miners who were supervisors lived in two story houses, there were about 5-6 houses of this type. The mine was near the top of the mountain and coal was sent down to the tipple via an incline where cars were sent down and the coal was dumped into a large hopper. From there the coal was dumped from the bottom of the hopper on to a series of large metal plates that shook, each plate with one size of holes. As the coal moved from plate to plate, the coal would fall through their respective holes into another hopper over tracks where coal gons would run under the hopper and filled. There were 3-4 sets of tracks under the tipple for this plus the main tracks where the empty gons would be delivered. This movement of gons under the hoppers to be filled was done by gravity. Once filled the gons would feed down by gravity on its set of tracks and attached to another gon. This would continue until there was enough gons to be hauled off. The train engine would come in, attach to the first set of gons, move back out until it cleared the switch, throw the switch, and keep picking up all the gons and then back all the way out and move out of the hollow.
Children: Marvina Gail Robbins Wright Bauer, Dennis Ray Wright, Jackie Faye Wright Nunez, Stephen Wright, William Argus Wright, Darrin Lee Wright, Kimberly Wright Alexander, Tommy Wade Wright, David Glenn Wright, and Jill Millard Wright.
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Insull Coal Camp was divided into old and new sections and had a grade school (1-6) but that closed in 1955 and he attended first grade at Blackstar which had grades 1-12. The basket ball court was outside. The new section was at the bottom of the old section, across the swing-bridge over Puckett's Creek. Insull had its own commissary where miners could spend their script they earned as wages, a bath house for the miners, a large tipple and a multiple railroad track system for bring in empty gons and removing gons loaded with different sized coal. Miners who were supervisors lived in two story houses, there were about 5-6 houses of this type. The mine was near the top of the mountain and coal was sent down to the tipple via an incline where cars were sent down and the coal was dumped into a large hopper. From there the coal was dumped from the bottom of the hopper on to a series of large metal plates that shook, each plate with one size of holes. As the coal moved from plate to plate, the coal would fall through their respective holes into another hopper over tracks where coal gons would run under the hopper and filled. There were 3-4 sets of tracks under the tipple for this plus the main tracks where the empty gons would be delivered. This movement of gons under the hoppers to be filled was done by gravity. Once filled the gons would feed down by gravity on its set of tracks and attached to another gon. This would continue until there was enough gons to be hauled off. The train engine would come in, attach to the first set of gons, move back out until it cleared the switch, throw the switch, and keep picking up all the gons and then back all the way out and move out of the hollow.
Family Members
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Orene Onalee Wright Rutherford
1921–1985
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John Afton Wright
1922–1923
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Anna Kathleen Wright Saylor
1924–1971
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Lela Winfred Wright Prewitt
1926–2015
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Inez Wright Jackson
1928–2000
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Sarah Ethel "Becky" Wright Buell
1930–2005
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Wilma Sue "Aunt Tootsie" Wright Miracle
1935–2018
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Mavis Michelene Wright Miracle
1937–2020
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Wayne Edwin Wright
1938–1938
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Jerry Clayton Wright
1939–1941
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