Civil War veteran Isaac J. Neagley is buried at the National Cemetery at Hampton, Virginia. Dauphin County, There is also a government-issue marker #10957 (above) which indicates service as a Corporal in a Pennsylvania regiment. He died at the Soldiers’ Home on 31 May 1916. In the cemetery at Killinger, Upper Paxton Township, Dauphin County, […]
A brief notice of the death of George Waller appeared in the Harrisburg Daily Independent, 3 February 1890: Died of Pneumonia George Waller, residing in Lykens, and a brother of John Waller, of this city, died on Friday evening of pneumonia, aged about 46 years. He was born in Marietta, Lancaster County, and had a […]
The above family card for Anthony Wayne Loomis (1806-1864) was found in the Mennonite Vital Records of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1750-2014, available on Ancestry.com. It shows a child, William A. Loomis, born 27 December 1842, married Harriet Thomas, and died 4 September 1900. The card states that Anthony Wayne Loomis lived in Halifax, Pennsylvania. On […]
In 1912, the Hon. James Martin Yeager wrote and published A Brief History of the Yeager, Buffington, Creighton, Jacobs, Lemon, Hoffman and Woodside Families and Their Collateral Kindred of Pennsylvania. Yeager was formerly the President of Drew Seminary for Young Women of Carmel, New York as well as a former Member of the House of […]
Veterans of the Civil War identified as having some connection to the Lykens Valley area and included in the Civil War Research Project was last updated 19 April 2012. In a series of posts beginning today and continuing intermittently until concluding in mid-June, a brief sketch of each of the new names added since then […]
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