A listing of the March 2019 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Joseph Gee of Donaldson – Died “Unwept, Unhonored, & Unsung,” 1902 January 2019 Posts Obituary of Levi S. Adams of Tremont, 1911 February 2019 Posts Mrs. Comuskey of Williamstown Who Was Henry S. Graver? – Named on Lykens G.A.R. Monument […]
Henry R. Grimm (1835-1911), Civil War veteran, is buried in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. His death was reported in the Lykens Standard, 14 July 1911: DEATHS AND FUNERALS After an illness of two years of arteritis, during all of which time he was confined to a large reclining chair, Henry Grimm […]
Louis A. Gratz is often associated with the Gratz family of Philadelphia and its connections to the Lykens Valley. However, no evidence has been seen that he was descended from or closely related to that family. Louis, an immigrant, first appears in the area around Pottsville as a peddler just prior to the Civil War. […]
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 […]
George Farber, who was born in Prussia, Germany, about 20 May 1840, was living in Petersburg, Lackawanna, County, Pennsylvania, at the time of the Civil War, when he enrolled there in the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry on 17 September 1861. Like his father, he was a carpenter. After traveling to Harrisburg to be mustered into service […]
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