Norman Gasbarro | September 6, 2019
Lorenzo Michael, who was born on 22 September 1826 and died on 5 March 1894, is buried at the Zion Stone Valley United Methodist Church Cemetery, Matamoras, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. His name appears in a listing of Civil War veterans from Halifax, previously presented here. On his Findagrave Memorial, the following is stated: The son […]
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 | 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 | August 23, 2018
Today’s blog post features some interesting news briefs about Cornelius Bixler of Fisherville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, through which some new information was discovered about him including that he served for a time as a Dauphin County Commissioner; that he owned a creamery at or near Matamoras, Dauphin County; and that he was charged, tried and […]
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