Dan Walsh of Byrnesville PA

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DAN WALSH

Dan Walsh was one of the great singers of mining songs and ballads of the anthracite coal region of Central Pennsylvania. Dan lived in Byrnesville (near Centralia) Pa. Because of the Centralia mine fire Byrnesville no longer exist. The last home was torn down in 1996.

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Dan Walsh of Byrnesville made four records for the Library of Congress as one of the "singing miners". He was interviewed for a newspaper article in 1959 regarding those recordings.

Dan began working in the coal mines when he was 9 years old. He worked the mines for 50 years but took a few years off to sing in the motion picture theaters. Dan told the newspaper reporter that he "sang solos and those funny illustrated songs where the people would join in the last chorus." He sang in the Comerford theaters in Wilkes-Barre as well as the old Chamberlin Houses in Shamokin and Lock Haven, and Jamestown, NY and many other places. He also sang at churches.

Dan took only three singing lessons and the French professor that taught him those lessons told him "you're only wasting my time and your time". However, Dan did become an accomplished singer winning medals for two successive years at the Pennsylvania Folk Festival at Bucknell University. He can also be heard on the recently released CD "Songs & Ballads of the Anthracite Miners" which can be purchased on Amazon.com

Dan gave up professional singing in 1959 due to severe asthma but his voice lives on thanks to the Library of Congress.

This summary about Dan Walsh contributed by his great Granddaughter Patrica Logic

I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN BYRNESVILLE AND WOULD LIKE TO PRESERVE IT'S HISTORY. ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO ADD A COPY OF THEIR PICTURES OR HAS ANY COMMENTS COULD E-MAIL AT MPREIL@AOL.COM

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TURN ON YOUR SPEAKERS TO HEAR DAN WALSH SINGING (currently non-functional )

	*Pictures of the Walsh Family submitted by Trica Logic* *Sabina and Helen*
Family of (Martin) Daniel Walsh and Ellen Foley of Byrnesville Pennsylvania Sabina (7/29/1909-7/4/1961) married Joseph Kowalick (1912-1958) 1 child - Joseph (6/12/53) Helen (7/11/1908-7/19/1984) married Richard Moss (3/29/1907-3/20/1968) Marian (8/24/1914) married Bernard Monaghan (9/9/1909-3/9/1984) 2 children - Edward (6/16/1942) Ellen (12/2/1943) married James Doyle (9/10/1942) 3 children: Bernadette married John Elisco - 3 children: Michael, Samuel, Emily Maureen married Brian Sheller - 3 children: Gabrielle, Rachael, Brian Patricia married Joseph Logic - 2 children: Madeline, Camille John (1916-1989) married Josephine DeFlavio (11/5/1923) 3 children - Michael (10/12/1947) married Joann Lynch - 2 children - Brian, Shannon John (12/27/1951) married Barbara White - 1 child - Christopher Patricia (10/20/1954) married David McCowan (div), married Ken Mugler Alice (7/7/1919-3/12/95) married Daniel Apple 3 children - Daniel married Betty Platt - 3 children - Eileen, Daniel & Vincent Robert married Catherine Rich - 3 children - James, Michael, Daniel Sheila marriend Walter Basher (div) - 1 child - Joshua Daniel (4/19/1922 - 1971) married Lenore Burke 2 children - Daniel married Mary Wylie 5 children - Daniel, Rose, Christopher, Kelli Ann, Ryan Ellen AnnMarie married John Zelinsky - 1 child - Mary Susan Jean (08-01-25) married George Micheals(09-24-20) 3 children- Noreen Micheals(08-11-58) Kenneth Micheals(08-20-63) Sabina Micheals(08-06-61) married Williams Bates -2 children Kira Bates (01-12-85) James Bates (02-14-86)	*Daniel J Walsh (1969)* Picture submitted by son Mike Walsh *Helen and Alice*
*This was Dan Walsh's house in Byrnesville* This is a picture of the home just before it was demolished because of the Centralia mine fire.	*This is what it looked like after it was knocked down.*


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These pages about Byrnesville were created by Mike Reilley and were originally hosted under AOL's Hometown site under the address hometown.aol.com/mpreil. When AOL abruptly terminated the hometown sites, Offroaders.com assisted Mike in restoring his site from archived web pages, cache pages, backups and other resources to restore the memory of Byrnesvillle PA and to give his pages a place to live. Special thanks also goes to Robert Showalter who had taken the initiative to make an offline copy of Mike Reilley's site thinking that AOL may someday discontinue free hometown site services. To contact Mike Reilley, you can email him here: MPREIL@AOL.COM. Mike has begun rebuilding his site under Verizon's Mysite service at this web address: http://mysite.verizon.net/vzermnw3 Visit his site to see his latest updates.

Byrnesville, Pennsylvania - Byrnesville was a small community location just south of the town of Centralia Pennsylvania. Byrnesville was completely dismantled by 1996 due to the effects of the Centralia Mine Fire. Read more about Byrnesville Here.