Fannie Sellins
(1870-1919)
An organizer for the United Mine Workers, Fannie Sellins was brutally gunned down in Brackenridge on the eve of a nationwide steel strike, on August 26, 1919. Her devotion to the workers' cause made her an important symbolic figure. Both she and Joseph Starzelski, a miner who was also killed that same day, lie buried here in Union Cemetery where a monument to the pair was erected.
Marker is at the intersection of Freeport Road and Moore Street, on the right when traveling north on Freeport Road.
Courtesy hmdb.org
