Norman Gasbarro | November 6, 2017
George VanHouten was born on 25 December 1833 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. During the Civil War he served with the 31st New Jersey Infantry, Company D, as a Private, from about 17 September 1862 through an honorable discharge on 24 June 1863. He died on 3 May 1892 in Hopewell, Mercer County, New Jersey, […]
Norman Gasbarro | November 1, 2017
Joel Veatch was living in Williams Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in 1890 and at that time he reported to the census that he was a Civil War veteran and that he incurred a disability as result of his service – his right arm was shot off at the elbow. The Pennsylvania Veterans’ File Card, shown […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 27, 2017
A brief item in the Harrisburg Telegraph of 20 November 1913 noted the following: Dalmatia — Thomas Umberger, 78 years old, a well-known farmer and veteran of the Civil War, died very suddenly of apoplexy on Monday night. He is survived by one daughter. Thomas Umberger died on 17 November 1913. He was born 4 […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 25, 2017
On 11 August 1894, the obituary of John Townsend appeared in the Harrisburg Telegraph: SUPERVISOR TOWNSEND IS DEAD He Was a Veteran Railroad Man and Good Citizen John Townsend, for twenty-seven years supervisor of the Summit Branch Railroad, died yesterday at his home in Wiconisco after an illness of several months, aged 65. A wife […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 23, 2017
“When cannons roared and treason’s flag Defiantly did wave, He rushed to arms, he gave his life His bleeding land to save.” The above poem appears on the grave marker of John S. Trego at the Stove Valley (Zion) Cemetery, Hickory Corners, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. Also on the stone is the following information: In Memory […]
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