Elizabeth's Coal Camp Stories

About the Book

It takes on a setting of a coal camp; somewhere in West Virginia during the great depression days. Some of the book is fictitious. Most of the characters were names I had remembered as a child; whether they be real in character or of a fictitious nature, I used them out of due love for the families of yesteryears. Judge Henry S. Cato is a real character in this novel. I had cared for him as his private duty nurse for a period of five years. I feel like I got to know him as a nurse and as a special person. His life touched mine in a many ways, as well as the lives of others.

About the Author

About the Author

Carrie Dean Franklin Heck was born in a coal camp in Mingo County, West Virginia. She now lives in Ohio with her present husband, Homer Heck. Her loving late husband, Rev. Forrest Franklin, went home to be with the Lord God in December 2007. She has two children, Mary Faye and Michael Paul. The Rock of Ages Baptist Church in Huntington, West Virginia is where she worships God Almighty.