Tynewydd Disaster

[albionwriter]

Yes, timber boss sounds like a supervisor who would order the wood and see that the pit props were erected properly, a bit of an easier ob for someone of his age.

To me its seems like Abraham Dodd travelled to Alberta where he might have worked in a coal mine at Macloed and when he was settled he sent for his wife and daughter.  They might have lived there for a while, where is daughter married Lanclot A. Barnes.  At some period around the turn of the century they got lured by newspaper adverts to the little village of Belt, Cascade, in Montana in the USA, but after a while the whole family returned to Alberta, where Abraham spent the later years of his life as a widower working as a Timber Boss.

I have searched the buriel records for Macloed and Alberta, but have not discovered where he was buried yet.

Many thanks

gareth 

[RayDen]

Have just found the 1916 Canada census where wife Mary is still alive, so she died between 1916 & 1921.

Location: Township 7, whole or fractional, ranges 3, 4, 5 and 6, and Township 8, range 4, W. 5. M., exclusive of the Town of Blairmore and the Village of Frank

Household Members:   
Name   Age
Abraham Dodd   62
Mary Dodd           58

This information shows that they were living in the area called Hillcrest, Alberta, and that the specific town & village was Blairmore & Frank:  here is a link to the area:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Alberta:Crowsnest_Pass

The 1921 census specifies that Abraham was living in Hillcrest Village so this may be the place to look for a cemetery/death for Abraham.

There was a huge mining disaster near Hillcrest in 1914 where 189 miners were killed.
http://www.hillcrestmine100.com/

Ray

[RayDen]

Believe that his daughter Margaret remarried in 1903 in Utica, Fergus County, Montana (about 50 miles from where they were on the 1900 census).  https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZSK-ZVB

Her surname is given as Thomas (don't understand that?) but all the rest looks like it is Margaret.  Have not been able to find anything after this marriage.  Perhaps someone else will have better luck.

Ray