When Samuel H. Chubb died, an extensive notice of his death and funeral appeared in the Harrisburg Telegraph. He was buried at the Long’s Cemetery, Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. From the Harrisburg Telegraph, 19 March 1901: HALIFAX, 18 March [1901] — We regret to announce the death of Samuel Chubb, aged 65 years, an […]
In 1902 when the Annual Encampment of The G.A.R. took place in October 1902 in Washington, D.C., Henry C. Bowman was 66 years old and recently retired from his position of lamplighter of Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The annual national encampments drew Civil War veterans from all over the country and were usually well-documented in […]
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 […]
During the Civil War, Daniel A. Shive served in the 210th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company A, as a Private, from 12 September 1864 through his honorable discharge on 30 May 1865. He applied for a disability pension on 28 March 1891, which he received, but not long afterward, he was found dead along the railroad tracks […]
The death of Abner M. Pike was announced in the Harrisburg Daily Independent, 3 November 1902. The obituary in that newspaper did not mention his Civil War service: Death of A. M. Pike Special to the Star-Independent Halifax, 3 November 1902 — A. M. Pike, a prominent business man of Halifax, died at 9 p.m. […]
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