Norman Gasbarro | September 30, 2018
The Rev. Dr. George W. Humphreys was one of the great religious voices of his generation. During the mid 1920s, at the time when the Ku Klux Klan was at its height in Central Pennsylvania, Rev. Humphreys, who was pastor of a Methodist congregation in Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, took a courageous stand against the Klan […]
Norman Gasbarro | September 29, 2018
When Samuel H. Chubb died, an extensive notice of his death and funeral appeared in the Harrisburg Telegraph. He was buried at the Long’s Cemetery, Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. From the Harrisburg Telegraph, 19 March 1901: HALIFAX, 18 March [1901] — We regret to announce the death of Samuel Chubb, aged 65 years, an […]
Norman Gasbarro | September 28, 2018
Hanson Bottomstone (1847-1920), died at York, Pennsylvania, and is buried at the Halifax United Methodist Church Cemetery, Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He was a veteran of the Civil War. The Pension Index Card, above, from Fold3, confirms the war service of Hanson Bottomstone in the 192nd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H, from 17 February 1865 to […]
Norman Gasbarro | September 27, 2018
John Chubb, a Civil War veteran, accidentally died on 17 April 1870, after falling into the Pennsylvania Canal. From the Harrisburg Telegraph, 19 April 1870: MAN DROWNED AT MIDDLETOWN — Last evening, between eight and nine o’clock, a man named John Chubb, aged about forty-five years, originally from the neighborhood of Halifax, this county, who, […]
Norman Gasbarro | September 26, 2018
The Pottsville Republican and Herald, 16 August 1926, reported on a Ku Klux Klan gathering held at Ringtown, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, that drew people from a wide area of the county, including parts of the county that were adjacent to the Lykens Valley. Held Meeting at Ringtown. Ringtown got on the map again on Saturday […]
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