Norman Gasbarro | March 30, 2018
Lazarus Zerbe, also known as Zerby, died in September 1905 in Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. According to his grave marker in the United Methodist Cemetery in Williamstown, he served in the 17th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H, as a Private. Confirmation of this service is found in the Pennsylvania Archives, but the service was in the […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 28, 2018
According to her death certificate, Emma [Hoffman] Yentch died on 5 January 1908 in Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, of pneumonia. She was the widow of Frederick Yentch, a Civil War veteran who died in Lykens on 11 September 1885. Her obituary, which appeared in the Lykens Standard, 10 January 1908, told of her role in […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 26, 2018
Rev. John Winebrenner was a Reformed minister who broke with his denomination over among other things, the issue of human slavery, on which he was an uncompromising opponent. His views surely were known in the Lykens Valley in the days before the Civil War began. He died on 12 September 1860 and is buried in […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 23, 2018
In mid-October 1924, Lykens residents were alerted by three blasts of the colliery horn to the igniting of a cross on the culm banks north of the town. This, along with the flaming “J” alongside the cross indicated that a junior Ku Klux Klan had been formed at Lykens. This post is a continuation of […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 21, 2018
From a listing that appeared in the Lykens Standard, 17 May 1917, compiled by Claude Keiser, a member of the Sons of Veterans, the name of George Willis appears as a burial in the Union Cemetery, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Keiser, in supplying the information, which included all the Lykens cemeteries. indicated that his list […]
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