Norman Gasbarro | September 23, 2015
On this occasion of the visit of Pope Francis to the United States, occurring 22 September 2015 – 26 September 2015, a prior post on this blog is recalled. That post of 27 February 2013 was entitled, Pope Pius IX – The Vatican, Lincoln and the Civil War. ————————————— Pope Pius IX – The Vatican, […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 3, 2015
As obituaries and death notices appeared in the Harrisburg newspapers in the late 19th century and early 20th century, readers surely noticed the unusual number of references to associations of the decedents to Abraham Lincoln. How many of the claims were true? If any blog readers have any evidence to support any of the claims […]
Norman Gasbarro | June 24, 2015
In 1912, the Hon. James Martin Yeager wrote and published A Brief History of the Yeager, Buffington, Creighton, Jacobs, Lemon, Hoffman and Woodside Families and Their Collateral Kindred of Pennsylvania. Yeager was formerly the President of Drew Seminary for Young Women of Carmel, New York as well as a former Member of the House […]
Norman Gasbarro | June 4, 2015
A brief story telling of the funeral of a Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania woman, Mary Kilraine, appeared in the Harrisburg Patriot on 1 August 1905: G.A.R. HONORS FOR WOMAN By Associated Press to The Patriot Williamstown, 21 July 1905 — Mrs. Patrick Comiskey, who died on Wednesday, after a long illness, was buried in the […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 27, 2015
Emily E. [Lansbury] Woodley was born in Philadelphia on 26 May 1835, the daughter of Jeremiah Lansbury and Eliza [Reed] Lansbury. She died in Philadelphia on 15 May 1908 and is buried in the Fernwood Cemetery, Fernwood, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Her obituary appeared in the Harrisburg Patriot on 16 May 1908: ONLY WOMAN ARMY […]
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