36. Hill, Mike


Mike HILL(1-2) was born about 1862 in Finland.(3-4) He appeared in the census in 1920 in Lincoln County, Wyoming living as a “boarder” with the Nemi Hendricksen family.(4)  Mike is listed as widowed and that he immigrated tin 1913 and he was working as a coal miner.(4)  Mike died in a gas explosion in Frontier No. 1 coal mine on 14 August 1923 at the age of 61 in Frontier, Lincoln, Wyoming.(3)  Mike was buried on 17 August 1923 in Kemmerer, Wyoming.(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. Mike Hill, death certificate file no. 1413 (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: 1B; Enumeration District: 63, Mike Hill; digital images, Ancestry.com (: online digital 18 July 2011); Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.

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