Norman Gasbarro | March 22, 2019
In 2016, the Halifax Area Historical Society published a photo (above) taken in 1910 of members of the G.A.R. Post #523 of Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in its book on the History of Halifax Shoe Companies. That photo is different than the one previously published in which a group of unidentified members of the same […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 22, 2019
Obediah Johnson Farling was born in Millersburg, Dauphin County, on 19 April 1839, the son of Jacob Farling and Catherine [Christ] Farling. About 1868, he married Elizabeth A. Byers (1841-1924). There were no known children from the marriage. Following the Civil War, he became a minister of the Church of God. Obediah died on 14 […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 18, 2019
Samuel Etzweiler died on 24 April 1916 and is buried at the St. Paul (Bowerman’s) Church Cemetery, Enterline, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. On his grave marker it is noted that he served in the 101st Pennsylvania Infantry, Company D, as a Private. At Harrisburg, on 20 February 1865, Samuel Etzweiler enrolled in the 101st Pennsylvania Infantry, […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 9, 2019
The obituary of Elias Etzweiler appeared in the Elizabethville Echo, 15 April 1909: Elias Etzweiler At about 6 o’clock on Good Friday evening, April 9th, Elias Etzweiler, approaching the close of four score years, breathed his last. He had been making his home for some years with his sister, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fawber, in […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 14, 2018
Previously on this blog, it was reported that when Conrad Zimmerman died on 22 October 1930, he was the last surviving member of the disbanded Halifax G.A.R. Post. It was also reported that although Conrad Zimmerman was not married, for the last 30 years of his life, he lived with an African American woman, Roxie […]
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