Allegany County MD Archives Obituaries.....John O'BRIEN, 1879 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/md/mdfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Shawn McGreevy [shawnmcgreevy@geatz.com] "Frostburg Mining Journal, Frostburg, Maryland, Oct 1879: " In the Potomac Mines at Barton Tuesday, John O'Brien was crushed to death by a fall of breast coal. He was a man of family and about 46 years old." "The Keyser Tribune" Keyser, West Virginia, 25 Oct 1879: " John O'Brien, a miner employed in the Potomac mine at Barton, was killed last Tuesday by a fall of breast coal. He was about 45 years old and leaves a wife and several children." This file is located at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/md/allegany/obits/o/obrien-j4.txt