Norman Gasbarro | October 9, 2012
The following article was found in the Gratz Historical Society files about a program Ned Weaver presented in the 1990s. The photographs that appeared with the article are in the Civil War collection of the Gratz Historical Society and are re-produced for this post from the originals. Gratz Historical Society Learns of Local Civil War […]
Brian Tomlin | October 8, 2012
Ned Weaver was a longtime member, volunteer and Civil War expert with the Gratz Historical Society. Ned McLanachan Weaver was born in Elizabethville, Pennsylvania on September 19, 1924. With the exception of 2-1/2 years spent in the Army Air Corps in WWII, he lived his entire life in Elizabethville. He was one of four children […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 7, 2012
A few days ago we were notified by Jim Weaver, the son of Ned Weaver, that his father passed away in California while visiting his family there and celebrating his 88th birthday. Funeral services were held this past Friday in Elizabethville. Ned’s work for the Gratz Historical Society will live on through his writings about […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 14, 2012
Two previously published biographies of John F. Helt are presented below: John F. Helt was the son of David Helt and Elizabeth [Miller] Helt of Clark’s Valley, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, where he was born on 14 January 1841. John married Margaret A. Enders in October 1861. She was the daughter of Philip Enders and Margaret […]
Norman Gasbarro | July 3, 2012
William H. Hawk (1844-1912) lived through the tragic death of his mother and of his son in addition to honorably serving in the Civil War in the 11th Pennsylvania Infantry and in the Veteran Reserve Corps. The record shows that he he was wounded at Gettysburg on 1 July 1863 and at the Wilderness on […]
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