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Isaac Holland – Military & Masonic Funeral

| March 27, 2012

  ISAAC HOLLAND GIVEN MILITARY & MASONIC FUNERAL LYKENS, 23 November 1928. –Isaac William Holland, 84, Civil War Veteran, was buried in Wiconisco Monday with military and Masonic rites.  He died Thursday at Huntsville, Alabama, where he resided with a granddaughter for the past two years.  His body was brought to Wiconisco Sunday. Services were […]

Death of John Henry Spangler

| March 25, 2012

DIED LYKENS, 18 December 1903. — John Henry Spangler, an old and highly respected resident of this place, died at his home on North Second Street, Friday last at 5 o’clock a.m., of gastritis, aged 63 years, 8 months and 24 days. Deceased was born at Palmyra, Lebanon County, and came to this place in […]

History of the Dauphin County Civil War Monument – Part 5

| March 24, 2012

Part 5.  The Dauphin County Memorial to the Civil War is currently located in a park at 3rd Street and Division Streets near William Penn High School and near Italian Lake.  It is now in the Uptown section of Harrisburg, north of what was once the entrance area to Camp Curtin.  The monument stands about […]

History of the Dauphin County Civil War Monument – Part 4

| March 23, 2012

Part 4.  The Dauphin County Memorial to the Civil War is currently located in a park at 3rd Street and Division Streets near William Penn High School and near Italian Lake.  It is now in the Uptown section of Harrisburg, north of what was once the entrance area to Camp Curtin.  The monument stands about […]

Military Funeral for Comrade William Irving

| March 22, 2012

Military Funeral for Comrade William Irving Held on Tues. 2 P.M. LYKENS, 3 May 1935. — The town of Lykens paid its last respects to its oldest ‘first defender’ on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock, when the American legion, the High School Band, the Hose Company, and the school children beside a large number of […]