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Methodist Episcopal Cemetery, Williamstown (Part 3 of 3)

| August 3, 2011

  This is the final of three posts on the Methodist Episcopal Cemetery, Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.  The cemetery is located at the east end of Williamstown on the north side of Market Street.  For the past two days and today, a total of eighteen grave markers will be shown from this cemetery with information […]

Old Methodist Cemetery, Berrysburg

| July 18, 2011

Old Methodist Cemetery is located west, just outside the borough streets of Berrysburg, traveling on Route 25 toward Millersburg.  It’s on the right side and there is no clearly marked entrance.  In fact, a sign on the only access road notes that the road is a private driveway and warns, “Do Not Enter.”  Many Civil […]

Who Was Samuel Shoop? (Part 2 of 3)

| July 11, 2011

In the post yesterday, the story was told of how it was discovered that there was more than one Samuel Shoop who could be identified with the Lykens Valley area and the Civil War Research Project of the Gratz Historical Society – and the question was asked as to which of these Samuel Shoop‘s served […]

Who Was Samuel Shoop? (Part 1 of 3)

| July 10, 2011

The initial information obtained by the Civil War REsearch Project on a Civil War veteran named Samuel Shoop pertained to an individual who served in the 200th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company F, as a Corporal.  He was wounded at Fort Stedman, Petersbug, Virginia, 25 March 1865, and as result of the wound had his right leg […]

The 1863 Draft for Upper Dauphin County

| May 1, 2011

In July of 1863, President Lincoln issued a proclamation ordering a draft to raise five hundred thousand men for the Union army. It was the first compulsory draft in American history.  The draft was intended to encourage enlistment, but in many cases it had the opposite effect.  Federal troops had to be called out in […]