Norman Gasbarro | August 10, 2018
From the West Schuylkill Herald, 2 May 1919: Civil War Veteran Answers Last Roll Call Jacob Boyer, a well-known Civil War veteran, died at 12:45 o’clock Saturday night at his home on Grand Avenue after a long illness of asthma and other complications. His condition had been critical for some time. Mr. Boyer was 76 […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 9, 2018
Dr. John Boyer Beshler died at Oakdale, Washington Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 8 April 1869, and was buried at the Peace Cemetery, Berrysburg, Dauphin County. He was the son of Dr. Henry C. Beshler (1806-1888) and Mary [Boyer] Beshler (1814-1894) and was born 8 September 1839. The Lykens Register from 1869, reprinted in 1907, […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 8, 2018
During the Civil War, Cornelius D. Waldron served as a Corporal in the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company K. He enrolled at Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on 9 September 1861, and was mustered into service at Harrisburg on 29 October 1861. At the time he was 26 years old, stood 5 foot 8 inches tall, had […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 7, 2018
The Mount Carmel Item of 6 August 1904 reported the death of Isaac O. Billman, a hotelman of near Herndon, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. Death of I. O. Billman I. O. Billman, the well known resident of Jackson Township [Northumberland County], who keeps a hotel three miles back of Herndon, died on Tuesday night, aged about […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 6, 2018
A death certificate was filed in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, on 14 May 1915, for Samuel Bartlett. The cause of death was “unknown to jury either suicide or exhaustion – body was found with clothes burned off due to mountain fire.” The certificate, shown above from Ancestry.com, notes that Samuel Bartlett was a widowed, “colored” male […]
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