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January 2019 Posts

A listing of the January 2019 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Benjamin Franklin Enterline – 173rd Pennsylvania Infantry December 2018 Posts 4 Lykens Printers Went to War – Only 1 Returned Obituary of Elias Etzweiler Death of Henry Culbert & Suicide of His Son Thomas B. Evans – Cavalryman – Died […]

Obituary of Elias Etzweiler

The obituary of Elias Etzweiler appeared in the Elizabethville Echo, 15 April 1909: Elias Etzweiler At about 6 o’clock on Good Friday evening, April 9th, Elias Etzweiler, approaching the close of four score years, breathed his last.  He had been making his home for some years with his sister, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fawber, in […]

Michael Etzweiler – Veteran from Carsonville was Justice of the Peace

Michael Etzweiler (also found in the records as Etswiller and Etsweiler), was born on 15 November 1831, at Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, the son of Daniel Etzweiler (1800-1878) and Christina [Smith] Etzweiler (1802-1889). He married Catherine Bordner on 27 September 1855 in Jackson Township, Dauphin County.  She was born 12 March 1838 in Lykens Township, […]

Isaac J. Neagley – Millersburg Photographer

Civil War veteran Isaac J. Neagley is buried at the National Cemetery at Hampton, Virginia. Dauphin County, There is also a government-issue marker #10957 (above) which indicates service as a Corporal in a Pennsylvania regiment.  He died at the Soldiers’ Home on 31 May 1916. In the cemetery at Killinger, Upper Paxton Township, Dauphin County, […]

William Romberger – Drowned in Susquehanna River Near Harrisburg, 1862

William Romberger was born some time between June 1827 and May 1828 in Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, the son of Jacob Romberger (1806-1864) and Margaretha Rebecca [Conrad] Romberger (1810-1878).  It is believed that he died about 22 November 1862 by drowning in the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg.  Supposedly his intention in leaving Camp Curtin […]