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The Shamokin Soldiers’ Circle – Photographs 129 – 137

Today’s post on the Shamokin Cemetery’s Soldiers’ Circle features nine graves in the second circle, fourth quadrant, beginning with photograph 129.  The photographs in this segment are numbered 129 through 137.  All of the stones in this section are sequenced in the order of the death of the veteran.  For each of the veterans, the […]

Benjamin Snyder – Killed After Attending Daughter’s Wedding

The following story appeared in the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader on 8 March 1915: KILLED IN STORM WHILE RETURNING FROM A WEDDING Civil War Veteran Crushed by Train After Witnessing Marriage of Daughter WAS BLINDED BY SNOW Death Discovered When the Body Drops Off Pilot Several Squares from Scene Shamokin, Pennsylvania, 8 March 1915 — Benjamin […]