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 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 […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 9, 2015
Rev. James A. Stokes was previously profiled here on this blog on 17 September 2014 in a post entitled, Rev. James A. Stokes – African American with the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry? Additional information has been located about him, including a picture, in the Harrisburg Telegraph of 10 February 1916. On the occasion of his 75th […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 6, 2015
On 8 April 1914, the Harrisburg Patriot reported that Cassius Mars had died: WAR VETERAN DIES Cassius Mars, aged 71 years, a Civil War veteran, died Monday at his home, 1201 North Fourth Street, after a few days’ illness, of pneumonia. He was a charter member of David R. Stevens Post No. 520, Grand Army […]
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