Cache Found: Beaver Meadows, Banks Township, Carbon County 1898

[jeff of pa]

The Semi-Weekly New Era​

Wed, May 04, 1898 ·Page 2

This May be a Good one To Find . 1879 as a Bad Year for William Williams.

in MAY he was Injured in in a Slate Quarry .

then he was Instantly Killed at a mine in October

The Timing of 1898 is Close enough to Fit both, Even it would have been 19 Years Before

if 2 Different William Williams'

The one fits as he was Severly Injurred , He Could have Died at Home.
Back Then when Miners Were Injured Most Doctors Made House Calls

No Telling if he had more then One Cache

There is an 1875 Beers atlas with Beaver Meadows & Banks Township Maps.
I Didn't find a readabe ones online Yet

 

[jeff of pa]

1875 Beers Map
I Don't see Him. maybe Outside th Actual Town Or Maybe House was Not under his Name
or I'm just Missing it

 

[jeff of pa]

Beers Atlas's of that Period are Notorous For Mispellings,'Could Be one of the W, Wilsons on the Map

 

[jeff of pa]

There was a William Dugan in Beaver Meadows
But he was a JR.

2001 Obit

 

[jeff of pa]

Not the Family Home, Too New, of course Could have been Updated

 

[scruggs]

Very interesting! The ground harbors many secrets!