Pennsylvania regiments that served in the Civil War used a numbering system that is sometimes confusing to those not familiar with the practices in place at the time the war began and the practices that evolved as the war continued. The first regiments that met the call of President Abraham Lincoln were formed for only […]
1943. Henry Maurer, Last Civil War Veteran in County to Mark 97th Birthday. Henry Maurer, last Civil War veteran in Dauphin County, who will observe his ninety-seventh birthday anniversary next Tuesday, is shown with some members of his family at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Samuel Miller, Wiconisco, where the aged man now makes […]
William Thompson of Tower City was born about 1839 or 1840 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, the son of Alexander Thompson (1805-1873), an immigrant from Scotland who emigrated to America in 1828 to engage in various pursuits including flour milling, lumbering and mining. William Thompson‘s mother was the first wife of Alexander, Isabella Stoddart Pennman (1816-1851). […]
The most popular individual posts during the year were of the individual tablets on the Pennsylvania Memorial at Gettysburg. These posts also generated a number of questions from readers who were confused as to why their ancestor’s name was not on the tablet, when in fact, they knew their ancestor was a part of the […]
Church of the Brethren Cemetery is located just north of Route 209 in Upper Paxton Township. In traveling west from Rife, the Free Grace Church appears on the left and within a short distance, on the other side of the road, there is a sign for Keefer’s Road. Turn right at Keefer’s Road and the […]
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