Norman Gasbarro | May 23, 2018
William Adams, who served in Luther’s Unassigned Drafted Militia, Company B, during the Civil War, died on 31 March 1914. The obituary of William Adams appeared in the West Schuylkill Herald, 3 April 1914: ANOTHER VETERAN ANSWERS LAST ROLL CALLED William Adams, aged 72 years, a well known farmer and Civil War veteran, died […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 9, 2015
CARSONVILLE MERCHANT DIES OF APOPLEXY Elizabethville, 19 July 1917 —Alexander McLaughlin, a Civil War veteran who for many years conducted the general store and post office at Carsonville, died at his home here this afternoon at 4:30 p.m., following a stroke of paralysis. He was 76 years of age. He is survived by three sons, […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 14, 2012
Two previously published biographies of John F. Helt are presented below: John F. Helt was the son of David Helt and Elizabeth [Miller] Helt of Clark’s Valley, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, where he was born on 14 January 1841. John married Margaret A. Enders in October 1861. She was the daughter of Philip Enders and Margaret […]
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