In 1912, the Hon. James Martin Yeager wrote and published A Brief History of the Yeager, Buffington, Creighton, Jacobs, Lemon, Hoffman and Woodside Families and Their Collateral Kindred of Pennsylvania. Yeager was formerly the President of Drew Seminary for Young Women of Carmel, New York as well as a former Member of the House of […]
Today’s post on the Shamokin Cemetery’s Soldiers’ Circle features nine graves in the second circle, second quadrant, beginning with photograph 93. The photographs in this segment are numbered 93 through 101. All of the stones in this section are sequenced in the order of the death of the veteran. For each of the veterans, the […]
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 […]
Veterans of the Civil War identified as having some connection to the Lykens Valley area and included in the Civil War Research Project was last updated 19 April 2012. In a series of posts continuing intermittently until concluding in mid-June, a brief sketch of each of the new names added since then will be presented. […]
In this, the second of two posts on the Pennsylvania regiments present during the Petersburg-Richmond Campaign, the “order of battle”, or the listing of how the Union Army was organized for battle, concludes. Many men from the Lykens Valley area participated in the campaign around Richmond which was one of the longest, largest and most […]
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