Hanna Basin Museum
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    • 2020 Carbon Cemetery Association and Hanna Basin Historical Society ​Spring Newsletter
    • 2019: Hanna Basin Historical Society and Carbon Cemetery Association Newsletter
    • Visitors to the Museum
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      • Medicine Bow, Wyoming, Museum and Hanna Basin Neighbor
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  • Carbon
    • Hanna Basin Museum - Time Line
    • CARBON CEMETERY RECORDS
    • Carbon Mine Fatality Records
    • Visitors to the Carbon Cemetery
    • Carbon - Wings of Imagination - A Letter From Old Carbon
    • Carbon - A Poem by Mrs. C. E. Ellis
    • 2003: Carbon Cemetery Restoration
    • 2011: Carbon, Carbon County, Cemetery Restoration 2011
    • 2011: Bow River FFA Community Service Project: Carbon Cemetery
    • 2014: The Carbon Cemetery
    • 2015: The Old Carbon Cemetery Privy
  • Hanna
    • HANNA HAPPENINGS
    • THE HANNA CEMETERY: From the Bottom of the Mine
    • HANNA CEMETERY RECORDS
    • Hanna Burial Plots and Lots >
      • Hanna Blocks and Lots 1 - 6
      • Hanna Plots 1 - 50
      • Hanna Plots 51 - 80
      • Hanna Plots 81 - 129
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    • Hanna Early Churches >
      • Introduction to Hanna’s Early Churches
      • Episcopal Church - History, Bell and Cross
      • Methodist Church - Organ
      • Colored Baptist Church
    • Hanna Military in the Hanna Cemetery >
      • Hanna Cemetery - In The Military
      • Arthurs, Peter Killed in Action World War I
      • Love, Michael V. Killed In The Line Of Duty
      • Jones, William D. Died of Wounds Received In Action World War I
      • Lucas, Bernard R. Killed In Action World War II
      • Lucas, William C. Died of Wounds Recieved In Action World War II
      • Luoma, Arvo A. Killed in Action World War II
      • McAtee, William J. Killed in Action Vietnam
      • Saari, John Killed in Action World War II
    • Hanna Cemetery - Japanese Monuments Transcribed
    • Grave Headstones for Hanna Miner Fatalities Buried Elsewhere than Hanna
    • Hanna Where Did They Come From?
  • The People
  • Schools
  • Coal Mines
    • A History of the Hanna Coal Miner from 1868 to 2017: Bob Leathers' Notebook
    • Hanna Basin Mining Companies and Mines
    • Men Injured in the Hanna Mines
    • 1903 June 30: Explosion of the Union Pacific Coal Company's No. 1 mine in Hanna >
      • Hanna 1903 Explosion Explained
      • List of Miners Killed in the June 30, 1903 Explosion
      • 1904 State Mine Inspector's Report for 1903 Explosion
      • 1903 Explosion Coroner's Inquest
      • 1903 Explosion - Earle Holmes Letter to Wilson Gobble
    • Hanna 1908 Mine Explosions Explained >
      • List of Miners Killed in the March 28, 1908 Explosions
      • 1908 Explosion Coroner's Inquest Report
      • Noah Young's 1908 Hanna Explosion Report to Governor B.B. Brooks
      • 1908 State Coal Mine Inspectors Report - 1908 Hanna Mine Number 1 Explosion
      • David M. Elias - State Mine Inspector Killed in 1908 Explosion
      • 1908 Explosion - Gov. B.B. Brooks Communiations
      • April 3, 1908 Chums From Boyhood Died Side By Side
      • April 16, 1908 U.P. May Not Be Liable
      • 1908: Newspaper Articles from The Wigan Observer in England About the March 28, 1908 Explosion of the Union Pacific Coal Company's No. 1 Mine in Hanna
      • Death of Noah Young - State Mine Inspector for the 1908 Explosion of Mine No. 1
    • 1916 Labor Agreement Between the United Mine Workers of America and the Southern Wyoming Coal Operators
    • 1917 Labor Agreement Between the United Mine Workers of America and the Southern Wyoming Coal Operators
    • 1970 - 1980: Bill Becker's Hanna Strip Mine Blasting Videos
  • Gallery
    • 1889-1912: ​ Elmer Larson - The Butvier Collection from Sally Hafdell and David Eriksson in Sweden
    • Images from Early Hanna Basin and Wyoming
    • Early History of the Union Pacific Railroad
    • 1910-1920: McNulty Family Photo Collection ​Albert Film - Hanna Basin Adventurer
    • 1920 -1930: Gert Milliken's Photo Collection of Unknown Children, Women, Men, and Families in Hanna
    • 1963 October 2: A Large Cattle Drive from Palm Livestock Company at Elk Mountain ​ to Hanna's Union Pacific Railroad Stockyard
    • 2017 April 18: Un​ion Pacific Steam Engine 844 Stopped at Hanna, Wyoming
    • 2019 May 17 and May 4: Big Boy​ 4014 and Engine 844 Were Running the Rails Again
    • Images of Old Carbon Today
  • Notebook

Samuel "Sam" and Elizabeth Dickinson,: Carbon and Hanna Old Timers


Sam Dickinson worked in the Hanna mines in the early years, he later left the mines and opened  the Dickinson Dry Good store on Front Street. He sold his business to The Union Pacific Coal Company in about 1928. 

1906

Sam Dickinson retired from the Hanna coal mines in 1906. He later returned to Hanna and operated the Dickinson Dry Good store on Front Street.
The reception honored Sam Dickinson, who was gone to Big Muddy, where he will take charge of the company store. Mr. Dickinson carries a handsome gold watch presented by the miners. Both Mr. Brooks and Mr. Dickinson are well known in Rock Spring. ​(Rock Springs Miner, December. 1906)

1925

              Mr. Sam Dickinson--a Carbonit
​Mr. Sam Dickinson, of Hanna, by whose courtesy we reproduce this old picture of Carbon, came from England to this country in 1886 and was City Clerk in Carbon when it was incorporated as a town. He, in common with the other Carbonites, enjoys telling about the old town’s glories. “There never was such a town—we never had cliques or factions, we were Carbonites and if anything needed to be done for Carbon we all pulled together to do it,” is the way Mr. Dickinson tells about it. Carbon is now deserted, but the old timers of Carbon have formed a Cemetery Association, have purchased the cemetery site and every year the members resident in Hanna go out to the old town and care for the graves there. There are some forty-nine members of the Association, many of them resident in Hanna, but others now resident in Rock Springs and other parts of Wyoming and in the states of Colorado and California. But whether near enough to visit or not they all remember the annual cemetery day and the graves are all cared for by the members who do live in the vicinity.  (UPCCEM, March 1926)
Picture
Carbon Coal Camp in 1875. (S. Dickenson, Union Pacific Coal Company Employe's Magazine, March 1925)

1931

Sam Dickinson was a regular speaker for the Hanna Memorial Day services. Even after his move from Hanna to California he traveled  to Hanna for the celebration.
Hanna Memorial Day
​Memorial Day services were held under the auspices of different organizations. A parade of ex-service men, followed by the Boy and Girl Scouts and led by the Hanna Band marched from the Band Hall to the Mine office, where the procession was continued by cars to the monument at old No. 1 Mine, where services were held and a talk was given by Mr. T.H. Butler, of Rock Springs. The procession continued to Carbon Cemetery, where a volley was fired by The American Legion Firing Squad, and taps were sounded. A talk was given by Mr. Sam Dickinson, of Berkeley, California. In the afternoon the procession marched to the Soldiers’ Monument at the School House, where services were held after which all proceeded to the Hanna cemetery, where a volley was fired , taps sounded, Rev. W.R. Kessler speaking. It was a beautiful day and there was a large attendance at all services.  (UPCCEM, July 1931)

1937

​Mr. Sam Dickinson and daughter, Mrs. Sam While, and daughters, arrived from California to spend several weeks visiting relatives and friends. Shortly after arriving Mr. Dickinson had the misfortune of falling and breaking a rib. He was taken to the hospital, where he died of pneumonia on July 15th. 
Mr. Clifford Dickinson, of Oakland, California, arrived here by plane, being called here by the critical illness of his father, Sam Dickinson.  (UPCCEM, August 1937)

Carbon Cemetery Record

Dickinson, Samuel "Sam"
Link: Headstone
Grave: 86
Plot: MV
Monument: "July 27, 1865 July 15, 1937"; Shares stone with Elizabeth Dickinson.
Note: The death of Samuel Dickinson occurred at the Hanna Hospital on Thursday morning, July 15th. He was one of the pioneers of that district, having resided in Carbon County some fifty years. Seven years since, he removed to Berkeley, California, where his son and daughter live, and made the journey each Memorial Day to Hanna and took part in the exercises at the old Carbon Cemetery, where the remains of several loved ones, relatives and friends, were interred. It was his want each year to organize a Committee to clean up the cemetery and have things in readiness. Employed by the Company at one time, he quit its service and entered into business on his own account, selling out to The Union Pacific Coal Company about 1928. Interment was made in the old Carbon burial grounds on July 17th, the Masonic fraternity conducting the services. Mr. Dickinson had reached his 72nd year. The sympathy of the community is extended to the surviving members of the family.  (UPCCEM, August 1937)
Dickinson, Elizabeth
Link: Headstone
Grave: 86
Plot: MV
Monument: "July 2, 1869 Nov. 19, 1929"; Shares stone with Samuel Dickinson.
Source 1: UPCCEM 01/1930 "Dickinson, Mrs. Samuel of Berkeley, Calif. she had lived for so many years in Hanna before moving to Berkeley. The funeral was held in the Hanna Methodist Church on Sat. Nov. 23 and interrment made at Carbon."
Note: Mrs. Samuel Dickinson died in Berkeley, California. She lived in Carbon and Hanna for many years before moving to Berkley. The funeral was held in the Methodist Church in Hanna on Saturday, November 23, and interment made at Carbon cemetery. Sympathy is extended to the relatives in their great bereavement. Out of town people who attended the funeral of Mrs. Samuel Dickinson were Mr. And Mrs. T.H. Butler of Rock Springs, Mrs. James Morgan of Cheyenne, Mr. And Mrs. Alf Cheesborough, and Mrs. Mylroie of Laramie. Mr. Samuel Dickinson and son Clifford accompanied the body of Mrs. Samuel Dickinson to Hanna for burial.  (UPCCEM, January 1930)

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