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Women and the Civil War (Part 5)
Posted By Norman Gasbarro on December 12, 2016
“Women and the Civil War” is an exhibit of photographs and stories of women who had family connections with soldiers of that war. It was first displayed at the Gratz Fair in September 2013, where it received “first place” in a non-profit division. Afterward, it was displayed in 2014 at the Williamtown-Williams Township Historical Society; in 2015 at the Pillow Historical Society; and in 2016 at the Elizabethville Area Historical Society. With the “retiring” of the actual exhibit, the photographs and stories are now presented here on The Civil War Blog in a thirteen part series, beginning today.
For each of the thirteen series parts, one woman is featured first along with a brief description of her connection to a Civil War soldier. For the other women who are pictured in each part, a brief story is not provided, but blog readers are invited to add their own stories as comments to the blog post. In some cases, the women or the soldiers have been previously featured on this blog and links are provided to those posts.
EXHIBIT DESCRIPTION
Portraits and Stories. This portrait gallery is of women from the Lykens Valley and beyond who were influenced by or had an influence on the Civil War. It includes mothers, wives and daughters of men of the Civil War generation. A few of their stories have been briefly told here [in the exhibit]. As part of the Civil War Research Project, photographs and stories of these remarkable women are being collected and preserved for future generations. Over time, much of this history has been lost because it has not been recorded and saved. For the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, it has been a priority to collect, record and preserve this valuable part of our heritage.
Carrie [Maurer] Schminky
daughter of
CARE GIVER. She cared for her aged father, the last surviving Civil War veteran in the Lykens Valley area. He died in 1947 at her home in Wiconisco, just before his 101st birthday.
wife of
Lydia [Yount] Weaver
wife of
Alice [Atkins] Mellon
wife of
Henry C. Mellon
Adaline S. [Daniel] Blyler
daughter-in-law of
Elizabeth J. [Warne] Leckey
wife of
Judith [Brosius] Ferster
wife of
Barbara [Rudy] Row
grandmother of
wife of
Catharine [Lettich] Koppenhaver
wife of
wife of
Catharine Rife [Matter] Row
wife of
Kate [Row] Miller
wife of
Cornelius Miller
Sarah A. [Stahler] Deibler
wife of
Henry M. Deibler
sister-in-law of
Catherine [Hoffman] Hess
mother of
Martha [Snodgrass] Simonton
mother of
Katherine [Fortenbaugh] Ryan
daughter-in-law of
Emma [Warner] Klinger
wife of
All currently posted parts of this series may be accessed by clicking on Women&CivilWar. Photographs are scaled for printing on 4 x 6 photo paper without further adjustment.
The posting of my Great Grandmother Lydia Yount and my Great Grandfather Jacob J Weaver when you click on Jacob’s name the site it takes you to has no information on Jacob J. Weaver who was a tailor in Elizabethville But his brother Benjamin was in the civil war he was with the 50th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry Co. F