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It's worth noting that my sweetheart's great great grandfather, Anthony Hosking Odgers, was a miner who died in a mine accident in Hibernia, N.J., in 1880, and was among a couple dozen miners unceremoniously interred in a marker-less potter's field on a margin of the cemetery at the First Presbyterian Church of Rockaway, N.J. Remarkably, a document was discovered, by the current church sexton, that indicated exactly where each miner was buried. It's a sobering spot to visit and points out the disregard miners and their families faced, due to their relatively low socio-economic status. You've gotten me thinking about a way in which I might be able to memorialize them with some sort of marker. Thanks for your posts!