Norman Gasbarro | October 31, 2018
Ezra Cockill, Civil War veteran, died on 17 December 1932, and is buried at the Middleboro Cemetery, Middleboro, Bell County, Kentucky. Two Lykens Valley area newspapers noted his passing: The Pottsville Republican, 20 December 1932 stated the following: Ezra Cockill Died in Kentucky Ezra Cockill of the old time Llewellyn Branch Township family, is dead […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 29, 2018
Charles H. Geist served in the 192nd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H, as a Private during the Civil War. He was mustered into service on 21 February 1865 and was honorably discharged on 24 August 1865. On 11 November 1892, he applied for an invalid pension based on his service. The record card shown above from […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 26, 2018
This ad appeared in the Elizabethville Echo, 30 May 1929. It pictures three men, two in business or street clothing standing arm in arm with a Civil War veteran in a G.A.R. uniform. The advertiser, Sidney Goldman (1893-1965) was the owner/operator of the G. & S. Department Store of Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, that advertised […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 24, 2018
John C. Davis, was born 18 May 1846, in Wales, and emigrated to the United States only a few years before the Civil War. In 1890, he was living in Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and reported to the census that he had served in the 179th Ohio Infantry, Company G, as a Private. The above […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 22, 2018
During his lifetime Jacob Coleman (1822-1886) made an attempt to get a Civil War pension but was denied. After his death, the former Elizabeth Savage, his widow, also made a claim for a pension but was also denied. The death of Jacob Coleman was reported in the Milheim Journal (Centre County, Pennsylvania), 9 December 1886: […]
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