Samuel Keiter was born 8 November 1819, and married Susannah Shutt, who was born 4 October 1922. His Civil War service was chronicled in Captain Enders Legion, pages 109-110: Samuel enlisted 2 November 1862 at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in the 172nd Pennsylvania Regiment [172nd Pennsylvania Infantry], Company A for nine months. On 2 December […]
The 153rd Pennsylvania Infantry Monument at Gettysburg is located north of the town of Gettysburg along Howard avenue on Barlow’s Knoll. It was dedicated in 1889 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and is the second monument to this regiment at Gettysburg; the first monument is located at Wainwright Avenue and was dedicated in 1884 by […]
Two brothers, Jonas Harrison Kauffman (1840-1930) and Luther Samuel Kauffman (1846-1938), both associated with Minersville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, saw service in the Civil War and following the war had successful professional careers, the older brother as a physician and the younger brother as an attorney. Jonas H. Kauffman has also been named in two sources […]
Today’s post on the Shamokin Cemetery’s Soldiers’ Circle features nine graves in the outer circle, third quadrant, beginning with photograph 51. The photographs in this segment are numbered 51 through 59. All of the stones in this section are sequenced in the order of the death of the veteran. For each of the veterans, the […]
Israel Seiders was born on 1 September 1838 in Matamoras, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, the son Henry Seiders (also known as Zeiders) and Mary [Miller] Seiders, His mother was a descendant of the Enders family, early pioneer settlers of the area near Halifax Township. He died on 4 May 1904, and the next day, his obituary […]
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