{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"The News Journal","provider_url":"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net","title":"Bon Jellico historical marker dedicated &ndash; The News Journal","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ILn0WnpjRn\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net\/bon-jellico-historical-marker-dedicated\/\">Bon Jellico historical marker dedicated<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net\/bon-jellico-historical-marker-dedicated\/embed\/#?secret=ILn0WnpjRn\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Bon Jellico historical marker dedicated&#8221; &#8212; The News Journal\" data-secret=\"ILn0WnpjRn\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! 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It was the place where his parents first met. \u201cMy grandpa, Alex Nunley, was a coal miner up here. My grandma was named Nan and they had seven kids up here. My mother was born up here,\u201d Witt said about Bon Jellico, which is sometimes also referred to as Bon Hollow.\u00a0\u201cMy daddy hauled coal out of here that\u2019s how he and mother met each other. He had a little old flat bed truck with little rails on the side. He would come up here and buy coal and deliver it. He met my mother and they got married while she lived in Bon Hollow and he moved her to Emlyn.\u201d Witt was one of a handful of people on hand Sunday afternoon for the dedication of a historical marker recognizing the significance of Bon Jellico in the history of Whitley County. \u201cI think it\u2019s wonderful thing. It\u2019s beautiful,\u201d Witt said about the historical marker Sunday. \u201cI thought we would never hear any more about it after it closed. My grandmother told tales after tales about what went on up here. I used to come up here and play when I was a kid after the mining camp was gone.\u201d The Kentucky Historical Society\u2019s historical marker was dedicated Sunday about two miles west of Williamsburg near the intersection of Highway 92W and Bon Hollow Road. The mine operated from 1912-1937 and employed 350 workers. It produced nearly 100,000 tons of Blue Gem coal annually. The town around the mine included 75 houses, a three-room school\/church and a company store. About 1,500 people lived in Bon Jellico over the 25-year period that the mine operated, according to the Kentucky Historical Society (KHS). The mine closed primarily because the coal supply was depleted. Lynn Stenglein, one of the organizers behind the effort to get the historical marker, read a portion of her application letter as part of the dedication ceremony explaining why she did it. \u201cThe local economy of the Whitley County area and hundreds of lives were affected in the 25 years that the Bon workers in the Bon Jellico mines operated. The Bon camp was home to many of the workers and their families. Children of Bon miners became educators, doctors, business people and scientists. They served their country, state and communities,\u201d she read. \u201cCoal production is declining in southeastern Kentucky. The camps and coal communities are mostly gone. Bon Jellico was returned to forest long ago that is why we mark this location and formally remember the Bon Jellico coal mines, camps, families and cultures.\u201d Another person on hand for Sunday\u2019s dedication ceremony was Jim Stout, whose grandfather, Jim \u201cRed\u201d Stout, and grandmother Tennie Stout, lived at Bon Jellico. His grandparents migrated to Williamsburg from Crawford, Tennessee, another little coal mining town. They initially came with a company that migrated to Williamsburg and the Gatliff area, but ended up settling in Bon Jellico. \u201cMy father was born here. The Stouts have a long history with Bon Jellico. There are a lot of good people that grew up here and lived here. It is great to see something put up in their memory,\u201d Stout noted. For more information about the Bon Jellico log onto http:\/\/www.kykinfolk.com\/bonjellico."}