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Civil War Veteran Burials at St. Paul’s Cemetery, Tower City (Part 3 of 6)

| February 9, 2013

(Part 3 of 6).  St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Cemetery is located in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, at the corner of East Grand Avenue (U.S. Route 209) and North 4th Street.  At the front of the cemetery, along East Grand Avenue, is the Tower City, Porter Township and Rush Township Veterans Memorial, which was previously […]

Civil War Veteran Burials at St. Paul’s Cemetery, Tower City (Part 2 of 6)

| February 8, 2013

(Part 2 of 6).  St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Cemetery is located in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, at the corner of East Grand Avenue (U.S. Route 209) and North 4th Street.  At the front of the cemetery, along East Grand Avenue, is the Tower City, Porter Township and Rush Township Veterans Memorial, which was previously […]

Civil War Veteran Burials at St. Paul’s Cemetery, Tower City (Part 1 of 6)

| February 7, 2013

(Part 1 of 6).  St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Cemetery is located in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, at the corner of East Grand Avenue (U.S. Route 209) and North 4th Street.  At the front of the cemetery, along East Grand Avenue, is the Tower City, Porter Township and Rush Township Veterans Memorial, which was previously […]

Brothers Who Were Colonels – Francis Asbury Awl and John Wesley Awl

| February 6, 2013

The announcement of the death of Miss Frances Awl at the age of 79 in the Harrisburg Patriot, 19 September 1921, provided information to connect two men of the surname “Awl” to each other as brothers.  Colonel F. Asbury Awl and Colonel J. Wesley Awl were both Civil War veterans from Dauphin County.  The obituary […]

Rev. Hugh A. Loague – Catholic Priest at Williamstown

| February 4, 2013

Rev. Hugh A. Loague (1842-1916) was the Catholic pastor of the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, from 1888 to 1901.  When he arrived in America with his family around 1850, he settled in Philadelphia, where he completed his early education.  At the time of the Civil War, he was […]