Hollister
This is a reproduced photocopy of a group of coal miners in Hollister purchased from the Ohio University Archives library photo department. It is numbered referring to a list with the miners names that I forgot to pick up while at the library.
Coal Mining was a hazardous occupation.
Hollister Miner Killed
Charlie Woods Had Started Work Yesterday
Glouster Feb. 25, 1927 -- Charlie Woods, 62, Hollister, was instantly killed about 2:25 o'clock Thursday afternoon when he was run over by a loaded coal car in mine No. 267 at Hunterdon. He was crushed through the chest and head and both arms were almost completely severed. Mr. Woods had just started to work at mine No. 267 Thursday morning and was given a position as trapper, having been balloted to No. 267 when mine No. 266 at Hollister ceased work the first of the week. He was trapping for two drivers when he got confused and fell between a horse and string of cars. The first car passed over him and the wheels of the second were against his body before the horse could be brought to a stop. Coroner Lee Jones of Athens was called and conducted the inquest at the mine after which the body was brought to a funeral home in this city, and later taken to the home at Hollister this morning. As yet funeral arrangements have not been made. Mr. Woods leaves his wife and two married daughters, Mrs. Ed Tippie of Barberton and Mrs. Albert Burns of West Virginia.
Hollister is between Murray City and Glouster. While growing up a few years in Glouster we were sent to the Hollister Elementary School for our studies after the elementary schools consolidated in Trimble township.
I remember taking mini field trips up to the old Hollister cemetery on a hill high above the school where our teachers would have us eat our lunch and make tombstone rubbings. The remains of the school is still there. I remember some of my teachers names such as: Mrs. McClelland, and Mrs. Binderbasin. Mr. Robert Bunting was the principal. I remember being ill and Mr. Bunting driving me to my home in Glouster, I doubt principals could do that now-a-days.
Today there seems to be a revival in the town of Hollister with some newer houses dotting the landscape. Below you will find a link to the Hollister Gazette Newspaper written by the second graders of 1967-1968 and was part of the Glouster High School graduation class of 1978. This brings back memories of one of the great floods that occur every few years in these valley towns. This was written after a day of school being closed because of the flood.
Read the Hollister Gazette written by second graders in 1968
Hollister EUB church donated by Jo Brown Parsons.
Hollister girls basketball team donated by Jo Brown Parsons.
Humphrey family of Hollister donated by Jo Brown Parsons.
Martin and Flossie (Six) Sarina family of Hollister donated by Kathy (Sarina) Peters.
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