On December 9, 1926, 37 coal miners were killed in an explosion at the Francisco Mine. This monument lists Union members, but not every miner who died was a Union member.

Loren Bailey
William Cassidy, Sr. (CASSEDAY)
John Conley
Charles Cooper
Eugene Cox
John Driskell
Earl Gates
J.S. Gates
Frank Helsley
Vic Hulett
John Ireland
Fred James
Jessie James
William James
Lloyd Jenkins
Ledford King
Wes Lewis
Jess McCannon
W.H. Pat McCannon
W.L. Phillips
W.H. Ratliff
Rex Rembe
Ollie Roll
S.J. Rohl
Everett Saddler
Frank Seals
Wafe Seals
Jack Shafer
Roy Shaw
Harry Slater
Orvil (Arvil) Slater
Harley Snow
Rufus Steinhall
Claude Stone
Walter Edward Thomas (body not recovered)
Emrey West
Omer Whitman
Claude Wright

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These miners have Find-a-Grave memorials:

William Cassidy, Sr. (CASSEDAY) 86258646
Lloyd Jenkins 25113461
Warner T Byrd 55878090
James Harley Creech 20917028
Ollie Roll 41739037
Everett Sadler 138283246
Victor Hulett 52263229
Frank Helsley 22893145
John Driskell 34482609
Jesse James 34942310
William James 34942266
Fred James 34942225
Rufus Steinhall 22894069
Loren Bailey 22892778
John Ireland 22893648
Roy Shaw 104303493
Clifford Biel 79912491
Arvel Slater 51836476
Ledford King 22894004
Jesse Henry Williams 24992094
Jacob Schafer 138284741
Basil Rutherford 75331419
Harley Snow 22894037
George Black 136804224
Rex Rembe 25186017
Emery West 51856499
Shelby J Roll 105385497

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I like to clasp and press them close ~ those hands, those black and grimy hands of honest men with humble hearts and stainless souls ~ and brave, who mine the coal that comforts you and me. And neither is the mine a soulless place. It has been changed into a sacred shrine where souls were washed, though black it's walls and grim. And God was there! He ministers to all, yes even to the men with grimy hands.

Laufa Helsley Lockwood, widow of Frank Helsley
(inscription on back of monument)