The Halifax United Methodist Church Cemetery is located at the corner of Rise Street and Wind Hill Drive in Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The graves of twenty Civil War veterans are easily located in this cemetery. A prior post described the cemetery and showed old maps with its location noted. Today, Part 5 of a […]
Veterans of the Civil War identified as having some connection to the Lykens Valley area and included in the Civil War Research Project was updated 19 April 2012. In a series of post beginning yesterday and continuing intermittently for eight posts until concluding at the end of this month, a brief sketch of each of […]
William Alexis Stone (1846-1920) served as Governor of Pennsylvania from 1899 to 1903. He was born in Delmar, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, the son of Israel Stone (1802-1887) and Amanda [Howe] Stone (1806-1871). When the Civil War started, William Stone was too young to join a regiment, and although he tried to enlist by falsifying his […]
A listing of the November 2011 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Lincoln Sightings During Gratz Fair Week Civil War Harrisburg Gratz During the Civil War – Leopold Loeb House Jacobs Lutheran Church All Wars Memorial, Pine Grove Township October 2011 Posts Union League of Philadelphia Halifax Bank Robbery – Abraham Fortenbaugh […]
WESTON MERRITT KEIPER Weston Merritt Keiper, born in 1879, was the oldest son of William Henry Keiper and Susanna [Row] Keiper of Lykens. Weston’s father, William Henry Keiper, was a coal miner, who was described as a “large man” who had a “fondnesss for drink.” He would frequent the saloons on Friday evenings when he […]
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