86. Smith, Nick


Nick SMITH (12) was born about 1868 in Austria.(3) He immigrated about 1880.(4) He appeared in the census in 1910 in Frontier, Lincoln, Wyoming where he was recorded as a 42  single boarder living with the Louis Smith family.(4)  Nick was listed as Austrian Croatian who was working as a coal miner at the coal mine.(4) Nick died in a gas explosion in Frontier No. 1 coal mine on 14 August 1923 at the age of 55 in Frontier, Lincoln, Wyoming.(3)   He was buried on 18 August 1923 in Kemmerer, Wyoming.(3)  He was single.(2-3)

Sources:
      1. Kemmerer Republican, (Kemmerer, Lincoln, Wyoming), 24 August 1923, page 1, microfilm; Lincoln County Library, 519 Emerald Street, Kemmerer, Lincoln, Wyoming 83101.
      2. Sneddon Robert T.  Inspector (Dist 1) & Robert V. Hotchkiss Inspector (Dist2), "State Coal Mine Inspectors Of Wyoming, Districts No. 1 and 2," year:  1923; report, 1923; , Wyoming State Archives on microfilm, Cheyenne, Wyoming.
      3. Nick Smith, death certificate file no. 1423 (14 August 1923), State of Wyoming, Wyoming State Archives, 2301 Central Avenue, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82001.
      4. 1910, population schedule, Year: 1910; Census Place: Frontier, Uinta, Wyoming; Roll: T624_1747; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 0129; FHL microfilm: 1375760, Nick Smith; digital images, Ancestry.com (: online digital 19 July 2011); Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.

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