Norman Gasbarro | July 26, 2012
The Tower City Borough, Porter Township and Rush Township Veterans Memorial is located at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Cemetery which is located along Route 209 in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It was the subject of a prior post on this blog on 30 December 2010. Within the glass cases on the monument are name […]
Norman Gasbarro | July 25, 2012
The subject of this post is the identification of the fourth cousins of Harrison Riegle (1840-1899) of Gratz who served in Ohio regiments during the Civil War. Their common ancestor was Johannes Cornelius Riegel (1664-1750) who emigrated to America early in the eighteenth century. Previously, Harrison Riegle was profiled in the post entitled Children […]
Norman Gasbarro | July 24, 2012
Stephen Smith, an African American merchant and abolitionist, was born in slavery in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, around 1795, to Mary Smith. The name of his father was never recorded and no evidence has yet been seen of the actual location of his birth, but it can be presumed that it was in or around Harrisburg. […]
Norman Gasbarro | July 23, 2012
The Tower City Borough, Porter Township and Rush Township Veterans Memorial is located at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Cemetery which is located along Route 209 in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It was the subject of a prior post on this blog on 30 December 2010. Within the glass cases on the monument are name […]
Norman Gasbarro | July 22, 2012
The Tower City Borough, Porter Township and Rush Township Veterans Memorial is located at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Cemetery which is located along Route 209 in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It was the subject of a prior post on this blog on 30 December 2010. Within the glass cases on the monument are name […]
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