Norman Gasbarro | April 11, 2018
George N. Wilver is buried at Long’s Cemetery, Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. During the Civil War he served in the 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company L, as a Private from 14 February 1865 through his honorable discharge on 14 July 1865. He was born 22 January 1842, the son of George G. Wilver and his wife […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 4, 2018
A report on the attendance of more than a thousand persons for the first Lykens Valley Ku Klux Klan Field Day appeared in the Lykens Standard in 1926. This post is a continuation of the reporting on hate groups that were active in the Lykens Valley area in the years following the Civil War. It […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 2, 2018
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 […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 30, 2018
Lazarus Zerbe, also known as Zerby, died in September 1905 in Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. According to his grave marker in the United Methodist Cemetery in Williamstown, he served in the 17th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H, as a Private. Confirmation of this service is found in the Pennsylvania Archives, but the service was in the […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 28, 2018
According to her death certificate, Emma [Hoffman] Yentch died on 5 January 1908 in Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, of pneumonia. She was the widow of Frederick Yentch, a Civil War veteran who died in Lykens on 11 September 1885. Her obituary, which appeared in the Lykens Standard, 10 January 1908, told of her role in […]
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