April's Fools---Knocker Up

The Knocker Up

After Hugh Roberts died in Pennsylvania, the family left and settled in Almy, Wyoming for a brief period of time.  While doing research on the coal mining town of Almy, I came across an interesting occupation that immediately caught my attention—the knocker up.  

The town “knocker up” would walk up and down the street with a long stick tapping on the windows or doors of the local coalminers waking them up each morning in time to go to work in the mines.  Before alarm clocks and no mine whistles, there were knocker-ups.

I never recorded the source of this story; however the occupation of the knocker-up is supported by internet searches and you will just have to take my word on it happening in Almy!


And just what did you think the knocker-up meant?
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