In researching Civil War veteran John L. Miller, who served in the 173rd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company F, as a Corporal, a Pension Index Card was located at Fold3 (shown above), that indicated that he died at Wiconisco, 31 December 1918. The Military Index Card, also from Fold3, confirms the service of John L. Miller in […]
Daniel Messner (1834-1904) served in both an infantry and cavalry regiment during the Civil War. He died on 23 December 1904 is is buried in the cemetery in Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and is also recognized on the Lykens G.A.R. Monument at that place. At the time of his death, the Lykens Standard, on 30 […]
On 24 March 1911, the Lykens Standard published an obituary of Henry Miller, a Civil War veteran who resided in Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. DEATHS AND FUNERALS After an illness of five months, Henry Miller, a veteran of the Civil War, died at his home on Market Street, Williamstown, Wednesday of last week. Deceased was […]
A brief obituary of Peter Matter appeared in the Lykens Register, 19 December 1902: Peter Matter, one of the oldest citizens of Elizabethville, died at his home on Tuesday evening at 5 o’clock of paralysis and dropsy, aged 77 years. Deceased was born in Dauphin County, and lived in his native town from his youth. […]
A recently discovered portrait of Civil War veteran Charles Henry Laudenslager (1847-1921), shown above, has prompted a revisiting of the information available on him to the Civil War Research Project. Previously noted here on this blog, in a post focusing on burials at Calvary United Methodist cemetery in Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, was the following: […]
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