Jonas Hoffman enlisted in the 103rd Pennsylvania Infantry at Harrisburg on 7 March 1865 and was mustered into the 2nd Company G, two days later, 9 March 1965. Previously some of the wartime activities of this 2nd Company G, 103rd Pennsylvania Infantry, were noted here. See: The Second Company G of the 103rd Pennsylvania Infantry. […]
Jacob B. Lehman was born in Mifflin Township, Dauphin County, Pennsyvlania, 15 November 1822 and died in Lykens, Dauphin County, on 9 September 1892. He is buried in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Lykens. A “Memorial” to him was located in the records of the Evangelical United Brethren Church of Lykens. In the “Memorial” it is […]
Two more veterans have been added to the Civil War Research Project as a result of being identified in a local area publication as being from Barry Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The veterans are Thomas Hoch and his son Franklin Hoch. On a grave stone in the St. John’s United Church of Christ Cemetery, also […]
(Part 2 of 6). St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Cemetery is located in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, at the corner of East Grand Avenue (U.S. Route 209) and North 4th Street. At the front of the cemetery, along East Grand Avenue, is the Tower City, Porter Township and Rush Township Veterans Memorial, which was previously […]
The Rev. Lewis Daniel Steckel (1839-1922) served as the pastor of the Reformed Church in Lykens Borough, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, at the end of the 19th and early part of the 20th century. He also had a congregation in Tower City, Schuylkill County. During the Civil War he was the Quartermaster Sergeant in the 176th […]
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