Norman Gasbarro | June 6, 2013
Veterans of the Civil War identified as having some connection to the Lykens Valley area and included in the Civil War Research Project was last updated 19 April 2012. In a series of posts continuing intermittently until concluding in mid-June, a brief sketch of each of the new names added since then will be presented. […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 27, 2013
Songs of the Civil War Cover Them Over With Beautiful Flowers Cover them over with beautiful flow’rs, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silently night and day, Sleeping the years of their manhood away, Give them the meed they have won in the past, Give them the honors their future forecast, […]
Norman Gasbarro | May 11, 2013
The Gratz Historical Society has a collection of compiled and original copies of records from most of the churches in the Lykens Valley area. One of the most useful sets of book is the nine-volume edition of Dauphin County Church Records. These volumes contain a variety of records for the indicated churches, including birth and […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 17, 2013
Rev. O. E. Pflueger was the Lutheran pastor of the Lykens Valley Charge from 1889 to 1902. The charge at first consisted of five congregations in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania: Simeon’s Lutheran Church in Gratz; St. John’s Lutheran Church (also known as the Hill Church) in Mifflin Township, near Berrysburg; Salem Lutheran Church, Elizabethville; Zion Lutheran […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 22, 2013
Isaac Hepler (1838-1918) was a Civil War veteran who, after the war, spent the remainder of his life in Gratz Borough, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, where he ran a successful business. The above family photo is of the Isaac Hepler family and was taken around 1890. Standing in back are sons Joseph Hepler and George Hepler […]
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