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Nimrod Workman

Tennessee

Nimrod Workman (born Martin County, Kentucky, 1895) was a coal
miner, a union activist, and a gifted singer. After a slipped disc and
black lung forced his retirement from the mines of Mingo County,
West Virginia, where he had worked for 42 years, he became a
sought-after performer and raconteur