This photo was published in a book about the Huish Mine. These are original buildings that existed at the time William Jefferies was a twelve-year-old boy working in the coal mine. William worked deep in the mine pulling sleds loaded with coal from where it was broken free. The coal would be transported to the surface in an elevator connected with the large wheel behind this stone building.
This is the Kilmersdon, England, Parish church where George Jefferies, a farmer and a blacksmith, married Lita Flower. She died in 1842 when their son, William, was ten years old. "Then commenced a struggle for existence. Our father married again. Home was soon broken up. My older sister went to service. Two other sisters were placed in a neighbor's family. I went to lodgings. At this time I was earning 18 pence a week tending thatchers of houses and grain stacks. I worked tending masons. I next worked in a coal mine.
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