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Tower City, Porter and Rush Township Civil War Veterans – Part 13

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 […]

Isaac Holland – Military & Masonic Funeral

  ISAAC HOLLAND GIVEN MILITARY & MASONIC FUNERAL LYKENS, 23 November 1928. –Isaac William Holland, 84, Civil War Veteran, was buried in Wiconisco Monday with military and Masonic rites.  He died Thursday at Huntsville, Alabama, where he resided with a granddaughter for the past two years.  His body was brought to Wiconisco Sunday. Services were […]

Death of John Henry Spangler

DIED LYKENS, 18 December 1903. — John Henry Spangler, an old and highly respected resident of this place, died at his home on North Second Street, Friday last at 5 o’clock a.m., of gastritis, aged 63 years, 8 months and 24 days. Deceased was born at Palmyra, Lebanon County, and came to this place in […]

Death of Joel B. Myers

Death of Joel B. Myers LYKENS, 26 June 1903 — Joel B. Myers died at his home in Wiconisco on Friday evening, 19 June, at about 5 o’clock, after an illness of one week.  Thursday preceding his death he had an attack of cramp and so great was the strain upon his constitution that the […]

Tower City – Porter Township Centennial – Civil War Veterans List

In 1968, Tower City and Porter Township in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, celebrated its centennial.  The “History Book Committee” was chaired by Howard G. Stutzman whose strong qualifications for the job were given in a brief biography on one of the book’s opening pages:  attorney, historian, civil leader, churchman, public speaker, political leader, World War II […]