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Charles
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Charles
A. Miner was born on Feb. 19, 1881 at Normalville, Fayette County, PA, the
son of Martin
and Amanda (Williams) Miner.
A farmer, Charles resided with his parents for many years. He never married.
In the autumn of 1898, “while crossing a fence with an ax, [he] slipped and was cut very seriously at the knee joint,” reported the Connellsville Courier.
Circa 1909, he was employed as a fireman on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. When he visited his parents during mid-January 1909, the news was printed in the "Normalville" section of the Courier.
Charles registered for the World War I military draft in 1918, and stated his occupation as a coal miner with the Rice (?) Slope Company.
He is said to have been a heavy drinker. Judging from the photo seen here, of him holding a bottle, it's quite likely.
Charles died on Dec. 5, 1957 at the age of 76. He was buried at the Normalville Cemetery.
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