Yesterday, the first post on Civil War veterans from the Lykens Valley area with the Hoover name was presented. Today another veteran, Alfred Hoover (1815-1902) will be discussed. Copies of some of Alfred’s pension application papers are available at the Gratz Historical Society, so more information is available on him than many of the others […]
During the Civil War, Joseph H. Reed served in the drafted regiment, the 177th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company I, as a Private from 2 November 1862 through his honorable discharge on 5 August 1863. Joseph H. Reed was born in Valley View, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, on 28 March 1840, the son of Abraham Reed and Sarah […]
According to information found in the 1890 Civil War Soldiers’ Census for Curtin, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, Line #19, there was a “Henry H. Harrison” living there who served as a Private in Company I of the 177th Pennsylvania Infantry (Drafted), for 9 months and 5 days. No person by that name has been found in […]
Obediah Johnson Farling was born in Millersburg, Dauphin County, on 19 April 1839, the son of Jacob Farling and Catherine [Christ] Farling. About 1868, he married Elizabeth A. Byers (1841-1924). There were no known children from the marriage. Following the Civil War, he became a minister of the Church of God. Obediah died on 14 […]
During his lifetime Jacob Coleman (1822-1886) made an attempt to get a Civil War pension but was denied. After his death, the former Elizabeth Savage, his widow, also made a claim for a pension but was also denied. The death of Jacob Coleman was reported in the Milheim Journal (Centre County, Pennsylvania), 9 December 1886: […]
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