Norman Gasbarro | November 23, 2010
Go back to the year 1924 when the Hoffman Monument was erected. If 10% of the Civil War veterans from the Lykens V alley area were still alive at that time, they would have numbered about 200, and surely, as senior members of any family, would have been sought after to tell their stories of […]
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Tags: Buffington family, Hoffman family, Klinger family, Riegle family, Schoffstall family
Norman Gasbarro | November 22, 2010
On a fall day nearly thirty years ago a small group of descendants of John Peter Hoffman, Lykens Valley pioneer, packed into a van and drove from the New Jersey Shore for what was to be a final visit with aging cousins and aunts at the Lutheran Home in Millersburg, Pennsylvania. It was a family […]
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