Moses Neyer is missing, i.e., his name in missing from the tablet on the Millersburg Soldier Monument which recognizes Civil War soldiers from that community and the surrounding area of Upper Paxton Township who honorably served in the war. The photograph at the top of this post (from Findagrave) of his stone at the Oak […]
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 thirteen graves in the second circle, first quadrant, beginning with photograph 80. The photographs in this segment are numbered 80 through 92. All of the stones in this section are sequenced in the order of the death of the veteran. For each of the veterans, the […]
According to family tradition, Conrad Reutler was a Civil War veteran. At his grave site in Tumbling Run Cemetery, Blythe Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, there is a G.A.R. star and flag holder indicating that he served in the Civil War. However, family research has been unable to confirm his service or the regiment in which […]
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