Brian Tomlin | March 31, 2014
March 1. Rebecca Lee Crumpler becomes the first black woman to receive a medical degree. Crumpler was born in 1831 in Delaware, to Absolum Davis and Matilda Webber. By 1852 she had moved to Charlestown, Massachusetts, where she worked as a nurse for the next eight years (because the first formal school for nursing only opened […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 29, 2014
Today’s post on the Shamokin Cemetery’s Soldiers’ Circle features nine graves in the outer circle, fourth quadrant, beginning with photograph 60. The photographs in this segment are numbered 60 through 68. All of the stones in this section are sequenced in the order of the death of the veteran. For each of the veterans, the […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 27, 2014
Today’s post on the Shamokin Cemetery’s Soldiers’ Circle features nine graves in the outer circle, third quadrant, beginning with photograph 51. The photographs in this segment are numbered 51 through 59. All of the stones in this section are sequenced in the order of the death of the veteran. For each of the veterans, the […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 25, 2014
A major suspicious fire which started at the corner of Third Street and Strawberry Alley in Harrisburg on 15 June 1865 destroyed a good portion of a city block. Two weeks later, another suspicious fire broke out and was described in a brief article which appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on 30 June 1865: Another […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 22, 2014
Today’s post on the Shamokin Cemetery’s Soldiers’ Circle features nine graves in the outer circle, third quadrant, beginning with photograph 42. The photographs in this segment are numbered 42 through 50. All of the stones in this section are sequenced in the order of the death of the veteran. For each of the veterans, the […]
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