Pic of finds taken out of one of St. Joe's Lead Mines....

[Anonymous]

this pic was taken at the Bunker Centennial in May 2007 where Cliff, me, Carolyn and Larry attended both grade and high school! The next pic is of lead, quartz and etc. taken out of St. Joe's Mines!

The case is in the hallway by the old rock gymnasium which my dad helped build in 1932! He worked in one of the Smelters as a janitor and he was not young until he was too ill to work any longer! He sold the farm and moved to Salem, MO where he and mom lived and then died in 1984! Still miss them and my brothers Larry and Cliff! We live and we die in these mortal bodies but whosoever is saved in Christ Jesus will have new immortal and incorruptible ones someday and live eternally with our Lord and Savior! Glory Hallelujah! God Bless! Betty

 

[RickIowa2009]

Amen

 

[DK]

Thanks for the pics and the good words.

 

[7centsworth]

Nice picture Ma

 

[Mike from MI "Iron Brigade"]

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[TreasureDigger]

Wow! Would love to have seen all of this in person. Thanks for sharing.

Lisa

 

[Anonymous]

Thank you everyone.....I have some of the specimens too in my collection, as dad was able to get some while working for St. Joe's Lead in the Smelter! I'm sure he got more ill from breathing the lead dust before he passed away at the age of 71 and mom of a heart attack at the age of 72....Cliff was the same age as her when he left this world!

Mom would have been a great archaeologist, as she was always picking up rocks of various shapes and colors and studied and collected pics and articles on many interesting things all over the world! She read the National Geographic and also bought one of the older detectors back years ago that had two wooden handles with a box between which took two people to use it! She never found anything I don't believe with it, but she did find lots of Indian artifacts on the farm when working in the fields and Cliff found some, too, but apparently I wasn't interested in them, I just wanted to get the sprouts cut and get the the rocks picked up off the land so I could get out of the hot sun, to pay attention to anything like that back then, but I sure would now! God Bless! Ma Betty

 

[steve in so la]

I love to see old rock displays - they have a bunch here as we are a big copper mine area. Thanks for the pics and the Good News of Jesus !! steve in so az

 

[Anonymous]

Would be nice if we could exchange some od my lead for your copper, so we would have some of each! I have a pencil with a plastic end filled with tiny rocks or something like that because it is kinda hard to remember after finding it back in the 80's or early 90's...'twas found on a school ground by eyeballing it! I so desire to go again but just too tired and ill most of the time and would make me more ill to go swingin' and a diggin'! Hope you are able to do it for many, many more years! God Bless! Betty

 

[Paul(NWOH)]

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[Anonymous]

You are welcome, Paul (NWOH) I like to hear and read about the past and how people lived and etc. But I forget too easily what I have learned! My brother, Cliff, told me that a lot of gold was taken out of the mines and was enough to pay for them! I don't know myself, as he seemed to hear from others what has and had gone on in the mines. Larry worked in one of the mines for awhile after he came home from the Navy, but not for very long. One of the guys that we grew up with as kids was killed in a mine accident, so the workers have to be careful for there are risks in lead mines as well as coal mines! Hope everyone is well in your family! God Bless! Betty