Previously on this blog, it was reported that when Conrad Zimmerman died on 22 October 1930, he was the last surviving member of the disbanded Halifax G.A.R. Post. It was also reported that although Conrad Zimmerman was not married, for the last 30 years of his life, he lived with an African American woman, Roxie […]
The death of Conrad Zimmerman in Halifax, Dauphin County, on 22 October 1930, was widely reported in area newspapers because he was the last surviving member of a G.A.R. post that had disbanded. The portrait above was published in the Harrisburg Telegraph of 24 October 1930. What was not stated in any of the articles […]
In 2016, the Halifax Area Historical Society published a photo (above) taken in 1910 of members of the G.A.R. Post #523 of Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in its book on the History of Halifax Shoe Companies. That photo is different than the one previously published in which a group of unidentified members of the same […]
A listing of the December 2018 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: William DeHaven Attends Lincoln’s First Inaugral November 2018 Posts Update on Joseph Ehrhart of Tower City Aaron Eckel Dies Same Day as Brother The Mystery of Josiah Ellinger Conrad Zimmerman – White Supremacist, 1866 Henry Enders – 198th Pennsylvania Infantry […]
A listing of the April 2018 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Conrad Zimmerman – Last G.A.R. Member of Halifax Ku Klux Klan Day at Elizabethville Attracts Huge Crowd, 1926 March 2018 Posts Two Militia Men Named John Wingert or One? Obituary of George N. Wilver Civil War Soldiers Buried at Lykens […]
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