Norman Gasbarro | August 15, 2018
Benjamin Bixler, Civil War veteran, died on 18 April 1901 in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. He is buried at St. Paul (Artz) Cemetery, Sacramento, Schuylkill County. His grave marker notes his service in Company G, 107th Pennsylvania Infantry. He was a private in that regiment, and according to the Veterans’ File Card from the […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 10, 2017
Elias Geist Morgan was born on 10 May 1842 in Upper Mahantongo Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Samuel Morgan (1812-1897) and Abolina [Geist] Morgan (1816-1890). On 9 March 1865, Elias Morgan enrolled in the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company D, at Philadelphia and was mustered into service the same day as a […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 22, 2016
On the 9 March 1919, the Leavenworth Post of Leavenworth, Kansas, reported on a new admission to the National Soldiers’ Home there – that of John J. Swab, indicating that he was transferred from Battle Mountain Sanitarium and stating that he had been in “nearly every other National Military Home in the United States, but […]
Norman Gasbarro | June 11, 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 | June 9, 2013
Today’s blog post provides information on Volume 3 of a series of books published beginning in 1995 by Closson Press, titled Schuylkill County Pennsylvania Archives. In all, three volumes were published through 1996. The series was based on genealogical research done by: Phillip A. Rice, a specialist in church and cemetery records; Jean A. Dellock, […]
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