Norman Gasbarro | February 18, 2015
The obituary of Billy Harley appeared in the Harrisburg Patriot on 6 August 1904: DEATH TOOK OLD DRIVER FOR GOVERNOR CURTIN Special Despatch to the Patriot Middletown, Pennsylvania — 4 August 1904 William T. Harley, a picturesque character of this place and a veteran of the Civil War and at one time driver for the […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 17, 2015
Major John W. Simpson was an African American Civil War veteran from Philadelphia who settled in Harrisburg after the war. He died on 6 April 1899 and is buried in Lincoln Cemetery in Harrisburg. The Harrisburg Patriot commemorated his life with a lengthy obituary: MAJOR J. W. SIMPSON Prominent Colored Citizen of This City Passes […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 16, 2015
An interesting obituary was located in the pages of the Harrisburg Patriot of 10 October 1895. Previous to finding this, it was not known that the upper townships of Dauphin County had been served by a justice, a teacher, and medical doctor who was a brigade surgeon in a Confederate cavalry regiment. Little is known […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 13, 2015
From the Harrisburg Patriot, of 13 January 1917: REV. J. Q. ADAMS, ONCE SLAVE, DIES Retired Colored Preacher Was Formerly Coachman to Judge Pearson, and for Years a Conspicuous Figure Here The Rev. John Quincy Adams, retired local colored preacher of the Wesley Union connection, former slave and known to all the older families of […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 12, 2015
Elias Martin (1839-1918) is buried at Highland Cemetery, Dauphin Borough, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. During the Civil War, he served two enlistments, although only one is named on his grave marker. Elias Martin first enrolled at Duncan’s Island in the Susquehanna River in Company C of the 136th Pennsylvania Infantry on 8 August 1862. He was […]
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