65. Miura, Fusajirou

Fusajirou (Fusagiro) MIURA(1-3) was born about 1890 in Fukuoka, Japan to Mr. K. Miura.(4-6)  He immigrated in August 1908 to Seattle, Washington with a final destination of Denver, Colorado where his father was living.(5-6)  Miura was 5 feet 6 inches tall with a large mole 3 inches below left ear.  He appeared in the census in 1920 in Lincoln County, Wyoming, where he was living alone and working as a laborer at the coal mine.(5) Fusajirou died on 14 August 1923 at the age of 33 at in a gas explosion in Frontier No. 1 coal mine in Frontier, Wyoming.(4)  He was buried on 16 August 1923.(4)  He was single.(4)

Sources: 

    1. Kemmerer Republican, (Kemmerer, Lincoln, Wyoming), 24 August 1923, page 1, microfilm; Lincoln County Library, 519 Emerald Street, Kemmerer, Lincoln, Wyoming 83101.

      2. "FamilySearch, Family Tree", familysearch online, FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch.org (: online 27 October 2011), Fusajirou Miura; undocumented and unnamed family tree submitted, [contact information for private use]; information is in Japanese.

      3. 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.

      4. F. Miura, death certificate file no. 1410 (14 August 1923), State of Wyoming, Wyoming State Archives, 2301 Central Avenue, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82001.

      5. 1920, , population schedule, Year: 1920; Census Place: Election District 8, Lincoln, Wyoming; Roll: T625_2027; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 63, F. Miura; digital images, Ancestry.com (: online 8 September 2011); Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch..

      6. "Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, Washington," digital online, National Archives and Records Administration; Washington, D.C., Ancestry.com (: online 28 February 2018), line 16; citing National Archives and Records Administration; Washington, D.C.; Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, Washington; NAI Number: 4449160; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787 - 2004; Record Group Number: 85; Series Number: M1383; Roll Number: 9.