Norman Gasbarro | September 30, 2019
William H. Harris, an African American who was born in Henrietta County, Virginia, died on 14 October 1910 in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Several local newspapers provided a brief obituary: From the Harrisburg Patriot, 4 November 1910: W. H. Harris The funeral of W. H. Harris, a Civil War veteran who died at his home, […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 14, 2018
Previously on this blog, it was reported that when Conrad Zimmerman died on 22 October 1930, he was the last surviving member of the disbanded Halifax G.A.R. Post. It was also reported that although Conrad Zimmerman was not married, for the last 30 years of his life, he lived with an African American woman, Roxie […]
Norman Gasbarro | September 19, 2018
William Henry Barrett, born 21 April 1830, was an African American who during the Civil War served in the 6th United States Colored Troops. His connection with the Lykens Valley area was that he married Luicinda “Lucy” Enty of the Enty family that settled in Schuylkill County. Several of Lucy’s brothers were Civil War soldiers, […]
Norman Gasbarro | September 16, 2018
Previously on this blog, it was noted that Thomas Williams, a mulatto, was one of the first to volunteer as a soldier from Girardville, Schuylkill County: In his compilation of articles on the History of Pottsville and Schuylkill County, Joseph H. Zerbey provided the following about the Girardville volunteers…. The first contingent from Girardville included: […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 2, 2018
The death of Conrad Zimmerman in Halifax, Dauphin County, on 22 October 1930, was widely reported in area newspapers because he was the last surviving member of a G.A.R. post that had disbanded. The portrait above was published in the Harrisburg Telegraph of 24 October 1930. What was not stated in any of the articles […]
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