Norman Gasbarro | July 27, 2016
Franklin B. Rumbarger is buried at the Rumbarger Cemetery in DuBois, Clearfield Co., Pennsylvania. He has a Findagrave Memorial which identifies him as a Civil War veteran and there is a G.A.R.-Star-Flag Holder at his grave site. He was born 10 November 1842 and died 1 May 1895. In his research entitled Civil War Veterans: […]
Norman Gasbarro | July 25, 2016
Philip Koch was born about 8 April 1813, the son of Heinrich Koch and Catherine [Ploutz] Koch, of Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Philip’s baptismal record is found in the records of the Zion (Klinger’s) Lutheran Church at Erdman, 22 May 1813. In 1850, Philip Koch is found in Lykens Township. He was married to […]
Norman Gasbarro | July 22, 2016
On 24 October 1864, Anthony “Anton” Haake, aged about 34, enrolled at Harrisburg in the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company D, as a Private. He was honorably discharged on 18 July 1865, and the record shows that he returned to his home in Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The return to Lykens is known because when he […]
Norman Gasbarro | July 20, 2016
Previously on this blog, as part of a post describing Forney’s Cemetery, Washington Township, Dauphin County, the following was published about John Henry Jury: John Henry Jury was born in 1834 in Berrysburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, the son of Jacob Bretz Jury (1799-1884), a farmer, and Mary Ann or Anne Marie [Schupp] Jury. John Henry […]
Norman Gasbarro | July 13, 2016
Jacob Keener, son of Jacob Keener (1823-1902) and Barbara [Weltmer] Keener (1822-1901) enrolled in the 127th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company D, as a Private, in Harrisburg, on 7 August 1862. He gave his age as 19, his occupation as farmer, and his residence as Lykens. He is one of many Civil War veterans who at one […]
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