Norman Gasbarro | August 11, 2018
A monument at the St. John Lutheran Cemetery at Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, recognizes Frederick Eckert Stees for serving as the National Secretary of the Patriotic Order of the Sons of America [P.O.S. of A.]. Stees died on 19 April 1905. The inscription on the monument reads: Erected by the National Camp Patriotic Order […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 10, 2018
From the West Schuylkill Herald, 2 May 1919: Civil War Veteran Answers Last Roll Call Jacob Boyer, a well-known Civil War veteran, died at 12:45 o’clock Saturday night at his home on Grand Avenue after a long illness of asthma and other complications. His condition had been critical for some time. Mr. Boyer was 76 […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 9, 2018
Dr. John Boyer Beshler died at Oakdale, Washington Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 8 April 1869, and was buried at the Peace Cemetery, Berrysburg, Dauphin County. He was the son of Dr. Henry C. Beshler (1806-1888) and Mary [Boyer] Beshler (1814-1894) and was born 8 September 1839. The Lykens Register from 1869, reprinted in 1907, […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 8, 2018
During the Civil War, Cornelius D. Waldron served as a Corporal in the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company K. He enrolled at Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on 9 September 1861, and was mustered into service at Harrisburg on 29 October 1861. At the time he was 26 years old, stood 5 foot 8 inches tall, had […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 7, 2018
The Mount Carmel Item of 6 August 1904 reported the death of Isaac O. Billman, a hotelman of near Herndon, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. Death of I. O. Billman I. O. Billman, the well known resident of Jackson Township [Northumberland County], who keeps a hotel three miles back of Herndon, died on Tuesday night, aged about […]
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