Edward J. Towers

Year of birth: 1879

Date of death: 25 Jul 1917

Cause of death: Unspecified

Age at death: 38

Edward J. Towers was working at the No. 7 mine on July 25th, 1917, when he was killed on the job. He may have been one of the few African-American miners in Cumberland at the time, being list as coloured in the undertaker's records. He was buried in the Cumberland cemetery in block 5-91.