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Civil War Veteran Burials at St. Paul’s Cemetery, Tower City (Part 1 of 6)

| February 7, 2013

(Part 1 of 6).  St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Cemetery is located in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, at the corner of East Grand Avenue (U.S. Route 209) and North 4th Street.  At the front of the cemetery, along East Grand Avenue, is the Tower City, Porter Township and Rush Township Veterans Memorial, which was previously […]

Dr. Jacob W. Shope – Physician of Halifax and Harrisburg

| February 3, 2013

Jacob W. Shope (1845-1923) was a physician in Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, who served in the 201st Pennsylvania Infantry, Company C, as a Private, during the Civil War. The Pension Index Card shown above is from Fold3 and gives the death date of Dr. Shope as 14 June 1923.  He is buried in the Paxtang […]

Amos Garverich – 172nd Pennsylvania Infantry

| January 17, 2013

Amos Garverich was born in Middle Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on 9 March 1821, the son of Daniel Garverich and Elizabeth [Umberger] Garverich.  Before 1849, he married Juliann Harten and set about raising a family in Jackson Township, Dauphin County, while working as a laborer.  And before the beginning of the war, at least […]

The Crook Family of Clark’s Ferry

| December 18, 2012

Four members of the Crook family of Clark’s Ferry, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania served in the Civil War.  Clark’s Ferry is located in the lower part of the triangular area of study of the Civil War Research Project. The 1858 map (above) of Reed Township is from the Pennsylvania Archives.  It shows the location of Clark’s […]

William Bender – Farmer, Carpenter and Wheelwright of Millersburg

| November 18, 2012

Information about the life of William Bender, of Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, a Civil War veteran, can be found in the Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, published in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1910, J. L. Runk and Company, and authored by William Henry Egle. (Click on book title for free download). William Bender, wheelwright and […]