Miners and their families getting engraved granite headstones? Now-a-day they’d be lucky to get a printed plastic plaque tacked to a wooden stake.
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"Sections belong to the Masonic Lodge, I.O.O.F. Lodge, Knights of Pithias, Woodsmen of the World, B.P.O.E. Elks, Loyal Order of Moose, Modern Woodsmen of America and the Catholic Church."
"Immigrant miners banded together in fraternal orders for religious practice and for insurance and burial benefits. Those without families or affiliations were buried in the strangers' plot."