The next day, in the 1930 US Census, I found that Flora had a son, William, born in 1928, but after Henry had died. By the end of the day, I had located him, now 78 years old and living in Alabama. I called him. He was not willing to talk much, but he did tell me that he had no knowledge of the Lewis Hine photos of his father, but that he did have one other photo of him. When I asked him if he knew how his father died, he said, "mining accident." At that point, he courteously asked to end the conversation, and that he wasn't interested in seeing the Hine photos.

Within a week, I had obtained Henry's death certificate, which stated that he had died from injuries caused by being hit by a falling rock. According to a list of Alabama Coal Mine fatalities, Henry's brother Jack also died in a mining accident. Flora married again in 1937, this time to Lester Rivers. She died in 1980.

I also located the daughter of one of Henry's sisters, who told me that Henry was always called Sharp. She knew about Sharp's mining accident. I asked her if she knew how Sharp's father died, and she said, "I heard it was the mumps." She was unwilling to talk anymore after that. She was polite, but just not interested.