Daniel Conway, Civil War veteran from Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, was pronounced dead on 10 August 1903, after his body was found in a lake at the Veterans’ Home in Dayton, Ohio. A brief story was found in the Dayton Daily News, 11 August 1903: BODY OF A SOLDIER FOUND IN THE LAKE. Daniel Conway Disappeared […]
John Chubb, a Civil War veteran, accidentally died on 17 April 1870, after falling into the Pennsylvania Canal. From the Harrisburg Telegraph, 19 April 1870: MAN DROWNED AT MIDDLETOWN — Last evening, between eight and nine o’clock, a man named John Chubb, aged about forty-five years, originally from the neighborhood of Halifax, this county, who, […]
Abraham Campbell was born about 9 May 1835 in Northumberland County. During the Civil War he served in the 6th Pennsylvania Reserves [35th Pennsylvania Infantry], Company B, as a Private from 10 October 1861 through discharge on a Surgeon’s Certificate of Disability on 26 October 1862. The record shows that he applied for an invalid […]
Someone reported to the census in 1890 that a Civil War veteran named Emanuel Budler was living in Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. However, neither the dates of service nor the regiment, company or rank were given. The above cut from the census page can be enlarged by clicking on it. Given the various spellings of […]
On 30 May 1901, the West Schuylkill Herald of Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, published a list entitled “Our Deceased Heroes,” in which soldier burials in area cemeteries were listed. All of the veterans named in the list were Civil War Veterans. Our Deceased Heroes Below will be found a list of the deceased soldiers […]
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