Norman Gasbarro | August 15, 2018
Benjamin Bixler, Civil War veteran, died on 18 April 1901 in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. He is buried at St. Paul (Artz) Cemetery, Sacramento, Schuylkill County. His grave marker notes his service in Company G, 107th Pennsylvania Infantry. He was a private in that regiment, and according to the Veterans’ File Card from the […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 14, 2018
Cyrus Bitterman was born 21 April 1837 in Berrysburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, the son of Hugh Bitterman (1813-1841) and Susanna [Bressler] Bitterman. On 18 November 1860, in Millersburg, Dauphin County, he married Louisa McCoy (1841-1892), daughter of William McCoy (1800-1894) and Eva [Bohner] McCoy (1810-1881). At the time of the Emergency of 1863, when the […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 13, 2018
During the Civil War, John S. Bottomstone served as a Private in the 36th Pennsylvania Infantry (Emergency of 1863), Company C, and as a Private in the 192nd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H. In Emergency of 1863, when Lee’s Army was approaching Pennsylvania and the Battle of Gettysburg took place, John S. Bottomstone answered the call […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 12, 2018
From the Harrisburg Telegraph, 13 May 1922: Veteran Railroader Ends Active Life Peter Bowen, age 79 years, a retired Pennsylvania Railroad employee, died yesterday at his home Sunbury. He was in the railroad service 46 years. In 1865, after his military service was ended, he located at Millersburg, Pennsylvania, where he learned his trade of […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 11, 2018
A monument at the St. John Lutheran Cemetery at Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, recognizes Frederick Eckert Stees for serving as the National Secretary of the Patriotic Order of the Sons of America [P.O.S. of A.]. Stees died on 19 April 1905. The inscription on the monument reads: Erected by the National Camp Patriotic Order […]
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