Coal Dust in their Blood, the Cycle is Broken

As the title of this page would indicate most of these men worked the coal mines in  the Counties of Clairon, Cambria and Indiana, Pa. William Hetrick the father of this  Family Was born in 1829 and married Margrate Jane Robinson in 1849 they had 10  children, four girls and six boys, and was killed in 1890 at The Wildcat Iron Works  Wildcat, Pa. His son Jonathan Jerry Alexander Hetrick married Clara Jane Keister and  they had seven children, there were three girls and four boys. The boys all worked  the mines. Jonathan Was a coal miner most of his life and a preacher. His son James  Bertrude Hetrick I married Effie Graffius and they had 4 children, there was one girl  and three boys. The oldest boy died in 1899 and the girl was born in1899. James  Bertrude Hetrick I was a coal miner and worked at the Summit mines, lived in Spangler  and died there from Diphtheria in 1899. His son James Bertrude Hetrick II married  Beatrice Smith and they had 2 children there were two boys. James Bertrude Hetrick II  was a coal miner and worked at the Sample Run Clymer #1 mine until Aug. 26 1926 when  an explosion occurred that killed 44 men, James Bertrude Hetrick II ( My Grand  Father ) being one of them. Beatrice Hetrick died in 1931 at the Indiana Miners  Hospital during an operation. My father Bertrude Irvin Hetrick and his brother  Charlse Kendall Hetrick were sent to the Malta Home Farm for orphan children in 1931.  They worked the farm in Granville, Pa. and went to school  in Lewistown, Pa. They  were both drafted into the United States Navy at the start of the second world war.  When the war was over and they were discharged  from the United States Navy Charlse  Kendall Hetrick went back to the mines in Clymer, Pa. were he worked for his uncle  Harvey Harmon Hetrick. He also worked alongside of one of his other uncles Alvin W.  Hetrick of Clymer, Pa. and died in 1983 from black lung at Lewistown, Pa. He was  married to Eleanor Fulton and they had five children; none of them went into the  mines.
 My father Bertrude Irvin Hetrick went into farming, he and my mother Virginia Ethel  Hetrick ( Pierce ) had five children there were two girls and three boys and none of  us went to the mines. I am the oldest son of Bertrude Irvin Hetrick, Jerry Irvin  Hetrick. I am married to Carole Bernice Hetrick ( Foster ) and we have two children  Roger Paul Hetrick ( Wooten ) and Virginia Mae McGuire ( Hetrick ). Roger has one son  Damien Lee Hetrick and Virginia has two girls Savanna Maria McGuire ( Cartahenia )  and Jeri Lynn McGuire.

Jerry Irvin Hetrick