Buried together at the St. Paul (Artz) Cemetery in Sacramento, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, are two veterans of the Civil War, or so it would seem from the bronze G.A.R. flag-holder markers adjacent to their grave stones. Samuel Wenrich and Amelia [Faust] Wenrich were husband and wife. This is one of the few graves in the […]
While working as track foreman on the Rattlling Run Division of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Leonard Craig was stabbed by another employee when he tried to stop a work-place quarrel. The following article appeared in the Harrisburg Patriot, 18 June 1889: Stabbed in the Abdomen Dauphin, Pennsylvania – 17 June 1889 – [Special] – […]
Thomas McDowell Jones (1850-1917), also known as Tom Jones, was well-known newspaperman in Harrisburg in the latter part of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century. In researching his life, it was discovered, that he claimed service as a Drummer Boy in the Civil War, but it took an Act of Congress to verify that […]
Greenwood Cemetery, Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, is located south of Grand Avenue (Route 209) in Tower City. To locate the cemetery from Grand Avenue, turn south on 4th Street and continue across the bridge over the Wiconisco Creek and the street becomes Greenwood Road. The cemetery is on the right just after the road […]
The Tower City Borough, Porter Township and Rush Township Veterans Memorial is located at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Cemetery which is located along Route 209 in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It was the subject of a prior post on this blog on 30 December 2010. Within the glass cases on the monument are name […]
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