Johnstown Daily Tribune; Wed, Nov 11, 1914
S. A. Clemence was born in London, England, October 23, 1864. He served six years in the English navy and came to America when he was 19 years old. He landed in New York and went to Scranton, Pa., and started digging hard coal when he was 19 years old. Then he went to Gallitzin and started digging soft coal for Taylor & McCoy Coal Company. He was married in 1888 to Miss Mary Helman, of Gallitzin. He took examinations for a mine foreman's certificate in 1890 and had been mine foreman ever since. His first company was the Taylor & McCoy. He had several other positions with coal company up until he came to South Fork, where he was a mine foreman for six years for the Stineman Coal Mining Company. In 1909 he accepted a position as Mine Superintendent for A. B. Hillebrand Company's mines at Listonburg, Somerset County. He left Listonburg in 1910 and accepted a position with the West Penn Coal Mining Company at Apollo, Pa. He was mine foreman at Apollo, three years. In October he took sick and was brought to his home in South Fork. He was removed to the Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hospital, Johnstown, where he died at 6:15 o'clock Friday morning, November 6. He was 50 years and 13 days old and was a mining man all his life. He was well experienced in mines and was well known throughout Pennsylvania. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary Clemence; Fred Clemence, Jesse Clemence, Miss Bertha Clemence, Miss Sidney Clemence, and Miss Ida Clemence, all his children, in South Fork.
(South Fork Cemetery) |
