Norman Gasbarro | September 28, 2018
Hanson Bottomstone (1847-1920), died at York, Pennsylvania, and is buried at the Halifax United Methodist Church Cemetery, Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He was a veteran of the Civil War. The Pension Index Card, above, from Fold3, confirms the war service of Hanson Bottomstone in the 192nd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H, from 17 February 1865 to […]
Norman Gasbarro | September 27, 2018
John Chubb, a Civil War veteran, accidentally died on 17 April 1870, after falling into the Pennsylvania Canal. From the Harrisburg Telegraph, 19 April 1870: MAN DROWNED AT MIDDLETOWN — Last evening, between eight and nine o’clock, a man named John Chubb, aged about forty-five years, originally from the neighborhood of Halifax, this county, who, […]
Norman Gasbarro | September 23, 2018
Peter Chubb died on 29 August 1913. He is buried at the Long’s Cemetery, Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. There is a G.A.R. Star-Flag Holder at his grave site and it was previously noted on this blog that he was a Civil War veteran. See: Halifax Area Civil War List. The obituary of Peter Chubb appeared […]
Norman Gasbarro | September 15, 2018
In 1902 when the Annual Encampment of The G.A.R. took place in October 1902 in Washington, D.C., Henry C. Bowman was 66 years old and recently retired from his position of lamplighter of Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The annual national encampments drew Civil War veterans from all over the country and were usually well-documented in […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 25, 2018
Charles F. Ballou died in 1929 and is buried at the Halifax United Methodist Church Cemetery, Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. At his grave site there is an in-ground G.A.R. star indicating that he was a Civil War veteran. Previously, on this blog, in a post entitled Halifax Area Civil War Veterans, it was noted that […]
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