Person:Wayne Warwick (1)

Wayne Scott Warwick, the second child of Franklin P. Warwick and Cynthia Jane Weaver was the second generation to be born in Anderson County, Tennessee. He was named in honor of his Uncle, Wayne Scott Warwick, a pioneering settlers in Oregon and Eastern Washington.

According to Wayne Scott Warwick's U.S. Social Security Act Application, he stated his date of birth as March 14, 1872, instead of 1873. He was 64 years of age when he completed the paper work December 5, 1936. His application shows his fathers middle name as Pierce.

In the fall of 1900 Wayne Warwick was working with Richard Smith Elder in a Hamiliton County, Tennessee coal mine and didn't know his life would be changed forever when Mr. Elder invited him to have Sunday meal with the Elder family.

Wayne knew Richard Elder's brother's-in-law's, James B. and Arthur Eastman as co-workers, and had met Richard's wife, Molly, previously, but had never laid eyes on the Eastman brothers' youngest sister before that day. It was love at first sight, and Wayne Warwick married Louise Belle Eastman a few months after a short courtship.

Wayne Scott Warwick's work continued to take him and his wife from their home state of Tennessee to the green grass of Kentucky, and to the mountains of West Virginia for a period spanning forty years.

When an explosion closed a mine or coal production dropped the family pulled up stakes and moved to another mining town in order to find work. They lived in Kentucky 1902 to 1910. West Virginia in 1911, Tennessee 1912-1916, Kentucky 1918, West Virginia again in 1920-1921 and moved back to Kentucky in 1922 where they remained for nearly twenty-five years.

After moving to Wayland, Floyd, Kentucky in 1922, Wayne Warwick went to work in the Elk Horn Coal mine as a timberman. To supplement his income, he planted a corn crop each year and sold it in the local area. In the fall of 1946 at the age of 72, Wayne Scott Warwick retired from Elk Horn Coal Mine and he and his wife, Louise Belle Eastman moved to Camas, Clark, Washington to live near six of their adult children who had moved west two years earlier.

Wayne Scott Warwick was a staunch Republican, who whole heartedly believed in Unions and was a supporter of union activity in the coal industry for years. He retired as a member in good standing from the United Mine Workers of America and his dedication to his belief in the good that comes from being a Union Member is seen in the inscription of his head stone inCamas, Washington at the Camas Cemetery where he was laid in final rest.

Wayne S. Warwick was a diabetic. The illness gradually began to affect his eyesight and shortly after his wife Louise B. Eastman passed away in 1955, he lost his sight. Diabetis continued to cause Wayne Warwick a number of health problems and ironically, like his father, he had to have a leg amputated.

The effects of the disease continued to progress and on August 8, 1962 he passed away. He was laid to rest next to his beloved wife, Louise Belle Eastman.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Gloria Torenson. Esmon Line - Worldconnect. (http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi/scatteredseeds.ged).