Norman Gasbarro | February 17, 2015
Major John W. Simpson was an African American Civil War veteran from Philadelphia who settled in Harrisburg after the war. He died on 6 April 1899 and is buried in Lincoln Cemetery in Harrisburg. The Harrisburg Patriot commemorated his life with a lengthy obituary: MAJOR J. W. SIMPSON Prominent Colored Citizen of This City Passes […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 13, 2015
From the Harrisburg Patriot, of 13 January 1917: REV. J. Q. ADAMS, ONCE SLAVE, DIES Retired Colored Preacher Was Formerly Coachman to Judge Pearson, and for Years a Conspicuous Figure Here The Rev. John Quincy Adams, retired local colored preacher of the Wesley Union connection, former slave and known to all the older families of […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 7, 2015
Scott Mingus Sr.,from York County, Pennsylvania, a fellow Civil War blogger, has greatly expanded on information made available here in a post entitled Some African Americans with Civil War Connections Who Died in 1910. One of those featured in that post was a barber of Harrisburg, Eli Gray. The post on Cannonball, by Scott Mingus […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 6, 2015
On 8 April 1914, the Harrisburg Patriot reported that Cassius Mars had died: WAR VETERAN DIES Cassius Mars, aged 71 years, a Civil War veteran, died Monday at his home, 1201 North Fourth Street, after a few days’ illness, of pneumonia. He was a charter member of David R. Stevens Post No. 520, Grand Army […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 4, 2015
Rev. George Shorter, who is buried at East Middletown Colored Cemetery (also known as the Old Negro Burying Ground), Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, served in the 127th U.S. Colored Infantry, Company F, during the Civil War. He died on 2 October 1916 and his obituary appeared in the Harrisburg Patriot on 5 October 1916: SHORTER FUNERAL […]
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