Norman Gasbarro | April 15, 2017
Israel Neiman is buried at the Old Methodist Cemetery in Berrysburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. At the time the photograph of his grave maker was taken (shown above) there was no indication at the cemetery that he was a Civil War veteran. According to the stone, he was born 10 July 1820 and died 19 November […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 13, 2017
This obituary appeared in the Harrisburg Evening News, 12 June 1924: JOHN E. NACE John E. Nace, 89 years old, of Halifax, who for the past two months had been living with his son, O. C. Nace, 22 North Harrisburg Street, Steelton, died this morning. Besides his son, he is survived by two brothers, David […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 11, 2017
This post is a continuation of the reporting on hate groups that were active in the Lykens Valley area in the years following the Civil War. It was a widely known fact that the third iteration of the Ku Klux Klan had a significant presence in the Lykens Valley and adjacent valleys during the early […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 10, 2017
According to information on his grave marker in the Odd Fellows’ Cemetery in Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, Samuel Mumma was born on 12 October 1822 and died on 12 September 1870. The marker does not indicate that he was a Civil War veteran, but his Findagrave Memorial notes that he served in the 26th Pennsylvania […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 7, 2017
William D. Murphy, or William Murphy II as he is found in some records, was born in August 1844 in Ireland. According to information in the 1900 census, he came to America in 1862, during the Civil War. He married Hannah Grant some time prior to emigrating and they began a family in Ireland, which […]
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