Norman Gasbarro | May 12, 2016
Recently, a family member provided some new information about James Metz who was previously profiled here on 29 Apr 2014. as one of the veterans who is buried at the Soldiers’ Circle, Shamokin Cemetery, Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. James A. Metz is also found in the records as Metze and Mertz. He was born on […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 11, 2016
Jacob Hess is buried at Sweitzer’s Cemetery, Berrysburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. According to his gravestone, he was born 31 July 1841, and died 20 February 1890. His wife, Mary A. Hess is buried with him. She was born 10 October 1847 and died 21 March 1929. Also buried in the same plot, and named on […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 10, 2016
The following message was forwarded to The Civil War Blog by Barry Stocker, regular contributor of information on Civil War soldiers from the Klingerstown, Schuylkill County, area. I found an interesting story about some Confederate POW’s used by an Iron Baron by the name of Grubb. They died while being used for slave labor in […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 22, 2016
In the 1860 Census of Washington Township, (Post Office Elizabethville), Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, there appears a family identified in the “Color” column as “m” for Mulatto. The head of the family was Marks Hornet, a 38 year-old laborer. He indicated to the census that he was born in Pennsylvania, that did not own any real […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 15, 2016
The Elias S. Herber who served in the 176th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company I, as a Musician, is buried at Allentown’s Fairview Cemetery, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. Although the grave marker reads “Herbert,” the veteran buried here was actually the one who served in both the 176th Pennsylvania Infantry and the 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company E. Those […]
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