Norman Gasbarro | March 27, 2019
Patrick Xavier Flynn, Civil War veteran, died on 2 September 1886, and is buried at Boyer’s School Cemetery, Washington Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. His service in the 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry, is noted on his government-provided grave marker, pictured above. The card above, from the card collection, Headstone Provided for Civil War Veterans (Ancestry.com), indicates that […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 25, 2019
Jonathan W. Feeser was born 17 September 1824 in Pennsylvania and died on 20 April 1905, at Linglestown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. During the Civil War, he served in the 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company B, as a Private. The Pennsylvania Veterans File Card (above) from the Pennsylvania Archives gives very little information about his Civil War […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 22, 2019
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 […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 20, 2019
Charles Henry Green was born 1 June 1842, supposedly in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, although one source indicates he may have been born in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. He died in Massillion, Ohio, 10 September 1924. On 25 January 1864, at Harrisburg, he enrolled in the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry , and on the same day, he was […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 18, 2019
Henry R. Grimm (1835-1911), Civil War veteran, is buried in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. His death was reported in the Lykens Standard, 14 July 1911: DEATHS AND FUNERALS After an illness of two years of arteritis, during all of which time he was confined to a large reclining chair, Henry Grimm […]
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