Joe LUPCHO(1-2) was born in 1907 in Wyoming
to Andrew Lupcho and Barbara Shintelli.(2-6) He
appeared in the census in 1910 in Frontier, Wyoming living with his parents and
siblings.(5) He appeared in the census
in 1920 in Lincoln County, Wyoming, living with his widowed father and siblings.(4) Joe, his father Andrew and his older brother George, were
all killed in a gas explosion in Frontier No. 1 coal mine on 14 August 1923
in Frontier, Wyoming.(3) Joe was
17 years old.(2-6) He was buried on 17 August 1923 in Kemmerer, Wyoming.(3)
Appearing in the Kemmerer Republican was the following article
entitled, First
Day at Work:
No family in
Frontier was more sadly smitten by the explosion than that of Andrew Lupcho,
who lost his life along with his two sons, George and Joe. Joe had been off duty for two weeks suffering
from an injured knee, sustained in the mine, and had just been released the
morning of the accident when he was killed.(7)
He never married and was the youngest coal miner killed in the
accident.(2)
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, Cheyenne, Wyoming.
3. George
Lupcho, death certificate file no. 1463 (14 August 1923), State of Wyoming,
Wyoming State Archives, 2301 Central Avenue, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82001.
4. 1920, ,
population schedule, Year: 1920; Census Place: Election District 8, Lincoln,
Wyoming; Roll: T625_2027; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 63, Andrew Lupcho
family including George & Joe; digital images, Ancestry.com (:
online August 2011); Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database
on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images
reproduced by FamilySearch..
5. 1910, ,
population schedule, Year: 1910; Census Place: Frontier, Uinta, Wyoming; Roll:
T624_1747; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 0129; FHL microfilm: 1375760, Andrew
Lupcho family including George & Joe; digital images, Ancestry.com
(: August 2011 ); Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database
on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006..
6.
Cemetery-Headstone, Kemmerer City Cemetery, Kemmerer, Lincoln, Wyoming. Personal photograph, property of and in
possession of Roberts Roots & Branches, of headstone taken between 2000 and
2003., George/Joe Lupcho headstone.
(7) Kemmerer Republican, Friday, 17
August 1923 page 1, on microfilm at the Lincoln County Library, Kemmerer Branch,
Kemmerer, Lincoln, Wyoming.
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