Woodrow Harrison Wiley, son of Marion Scott Wiley and Nellie Mae Perdue.
Husband of Elizabeth "Elsie" Williams.
Died in an underground machinery accident from a severe head injury at the Covel Deerfield Mine.
Left behind his young widow and three small children.
News article:
Covel Miner Killed In Accident Series
MULLENS - In a series of 11 accidents at the Deerfield Operations of the American Coal Company so far this month, one was fatal. to Woodrow Wiley, 33, at 2;30 a.m. yesterday,
His death has been recorded as the third fatality in the mine's five years of operation.
Wiley, a resident of Covel, who operated a cutting machine, accepted employment at Deerfield soon after its opening, having formerly worked for the same company at it's Piedmont operation in Mercer County.
The fatal accident occurred as he was backing a mine motor and had his head held too high, causing it to be caught between a mine timber and motor.
A native of Virginia, he was born at Narrows on July 18 1917, the son of Scott and Mary [Nellie] Perdue Wiley.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs, Elizabeth Wood Wiley, and three children, Brenda, Scotty, and George Ellis, at home; six brothers, Charley, of Columbus, OH., Russell and Tom, of Kegley, Sam, of Detroit, Mich., Dennis, of Covel and Garfield Wiley, of Lynchburg Va.: five sisters, Mrs. Maude Easton, of Seneca, S. C., Mrs. Mvrtle Graham, of Edwardsville, Ill., Mrs. Annie Stables and Mrs. Sid Clark,
of Matoaka, and Mrs. Viola Semenske, of St, Louis, Mo.
From the Bailey Funeral Home at Matoaka the body will be brought to the Covel residence at 10 a.m. today.
At 1 p. m. Monday It will be removed to the First Christian Church at Matoaka for funeral services at 2 p. m. to be conducted by the Rev. J. S. Foley.
Burial will follow in the Monte Vista Cemetery, between Bluefield and Princeton.
For more information read the Bio on Woodrow's wife Elizabeth Williams' Find-A-Grave Page (link below)
Husband of Elizabeth "Elsie" Williams.
Died in an underground machinery accident from a severe head injury at the Covel Deerfield Mine.
Left behind his young widow and three small children.
News article:
Covel Miner Killed In Accident Series
MULLENS - In a series of 11 accidents at the Deerfield Operations of the American Coal Company so far this month, one was fatal. to Woodrow Wiley, 33, at 2;30 a.m. yesterday,
His death has been recorded as the third fatality in the mine's five years of operation.
Wiley, a resident of Covel, who operated a cutting machine, accepted employment at Deerfield soon after its opening, having formerly worked for the same company at it's Piedmont operation in Mercer County.
The fatal accident occurred as he was backing a mine motor and had his head held too high, causing it to be caught between a mine timber and motor.
A native of Virginia, he was born at Narrows on July 18 1917, the son of Scott and Mary [Nellie] Perdue Wiley.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs, Elizabeth Wood Wiley, and three children, Brenda, Scotty, and George Ellis, at home; six brothers, Charley, of Columbus, OH., Russell and Tom, of Kegley, Sam, of Detroit, Mich., Dennis, of Covel and Garfield Wiley, of Lynchburg Va.: five sisters, Mrs. Maude Easton, of Seneca, S. C., Mrs. Mvrtle Graham, of Edwardsville, Ill., Mrs. Annie Stables and Mrs. Sid Clark,
of Matoaka, and Mrs. Viola Semenske, of St, Louis, Mo.
From the Bailey Funeral Home at Matoaka the body will be brought to the Covel residence at 10 a.m. today.
At 1 p. m. Monday It will be removed to the First Christian Church at Matoaka for funeral services at 2 p. m. to be conducted by the Rev. J. S. Foley.
Burial will follow in the Monte Vista Cemetery, between Bluefield and Princeton.
For more information read the Bio on Woodrow's wife Elizabeth Williams' Find-A-Grave Page (link below)
Woodrow Harrison Wiley, son of Marion Scott Wiley and Nellie Mae Perdue.
Husband of Elizabeth "Elsie" Williams.
Died in an underground machinery accident from a severe head injury at the Covel Deerfield Mine.
Left behind his young widow and three small children.
News article:
Covel Miner Killed In Accident Series
MULLENS - In a series of 11 accidents at the Deerfield Operations of the American Coal Company so far this month, one was fatal. to Woodrow Wiley, 33, at 2;30 a.m. yesterday,
His death has been recorded as the third fatality in the mine's five years of operation.
Wiley, a resident of Covel, who operated a cutting machine, accepted employment at Deerfield soon after its opening, having formerly worked for the same company at it's Piedmont operation in Mercer County.
The fatal accident occurred as he was backing a mine motor and had his head held too high, causing it to be caught between a mine timber and motor.
A native of Virginia, he was born at Narrows on July 18 1917, the son of Scott and Mary [Nellie] Perdue Wiley.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs, Elizabeth Wood Wiley, and three children, Brenda, Scotty, and George Ellis, at home; six brothers, Charley, of Columbus, OH., Russell and Tom, of Kegley, Sam, of Detroit, Mich., Dennis, of Covel and Garfield Wiley, of Lynchburg Va.: five sisters, Mrs. Maude Easton, of Seneca, S. C., Mrs. Mvrtle Graham, of Edwardsville, Ill., Mrs. Annie Stables and Mrs. Sid Clark,
of Matoaka, and Mrs. Viola Semenske, of St, Louis, Mo.
From the Bailey Funeral Home at Matoaka the body will be brought to the Covel residence at 10 a.m. today.
At 1 p. m. Monday It will be removed to the First Christian Church at Matoaka for funeral services at 2 p. m. to be conducted by the Rev. J. S. Foley.
Burial will follow in the Monte Vista Cemetery, between Bluefield and Princeton.
For more information read the Bio on Woodrow's wife Elizabeth Williams' Find-A-Grave Page (link below)
Husband of Elizabeth "Elsie" Williams.
Died in an underground machinery accident from a severe head injury at the Covel Deerfield Mine.
Left behind his young widow and three small children.
News article:
Covel Miner Killed In Accident Series
MULLENS - In a series of 11 accidents at the Deerfield Operations of the American Coal Company so far this month, one was fatal. to Woodrow Wiley, 33, at 2;30 a.m. yesterday,
His death has been recorded as the third fatality in the mine's five years of operation.
Wiley, a resident of Covel, who operated a cutting machine, accepted employment at Deerfield soon after its opening, having formerly worked for the same company at it's Piedmont operation in Mercer County.
The fatal accident occurred as he was backing a mine motor and had his head held too high, causing it to be caught between a mine timber and motor.
A native of Virginia, he was born at Narrows on July 18 1917, the son of Scott and Mary [Nellie] Perdue Wiley.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs, Elizabeth Wood Wiley, and three children, Brenda, Scotty, and George Ellis, at home; six brothers, Charley, of Columbus, OH., Russell and Tom, of Kegley, Sam, of Detroit, Mich., Dennis, of Covel and Garfield Wiley, of Lynchburg Va.: five sisters, Mrs. Maude Easton, of Seneca, S. C., Mrs. Mvrtle Graham, of Edwardsville, Ill., Mrs. Annie Stables and Mrs. Sid Clark,
of Matoaka, and Mrs. Viola Semenske, of St, Louis, Mo.
From the Bailey Funeral Home at Matoaka the body will be brought to the Covel residence at 10 a.m. today.
At 1 p. m. Monday It will be removed to the First Christian Church at Matoaka for funeral services at 2 p. m. to be conducted by the Rev. J. S. Foley.
Burial will follow in the Monte Vista Cemetery, between Bluefield and Princeton.
For more information read the Bio on Woodrow's wife Elizabeth Williams' Find-A-Grave Page (link below)
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