Roberts Roots & Branches

I have not updated this blog for quite some time, since I have been extremely busy.  I have been working diligently over at the Kemmerer City Cemetery in Kemmerer, Wyoming drawing up burial maps of the 99 miners killed in the Frontier Mine No. 1 accident.  I was able, with the great help of the cemetery office staff, Emily and Shannon, to get all but 5 graves located.  Those five coalminers are buried in the cemetery according to their death certificates, but the cemetery has no location.    After completing the map, I worked on short bio's for each coalminer as requested by the South Lincoln Historical Society.  That was a large project to narrow down important information about each miner.  Then, I drew out a walking trail through the cemetery for the easiest and most logical way to visit all of the graves. Finally, I was able to go to a Kemmerer City Council Meeting, a South Lincoln Historical Society Meeting, and a South Lincoln Historical Society Meeting tour of the mine area.

  I have been working to get ready for the 100 th anniversary of this coal mining disaster.  I will be marking every grave with a yellow flower (similar to my Memorial Day tradition), and I will be giving a guided tour through the cemetery following the flag ceremony and program.  For the last month, I have been working with the cemetery and drawing up a map of the burial plots of the miners who were killed.  I have also attended the Lincoln County Historical meetings, hiked up to the mine site with a group, been in discussions regarding the new memorial sign that is in the works, and attended a Kemmerer City Council meeting. There has been so much effort and work for this commemoration program, and I have to give a big shout out to Carol, the president of the Lincoln County Historical Society.  She has been amazing and wonderful to work with.  I will update more about the event and program, afterwards.