Norman Gasbarro | September 20, 2019
On 19 August 1861, an August F. Miller enrolled at Hegins, Schuylkill County, in the 50th Pennsylvania Infantry and was mustered into service as a Private in Company A on 9 September 1861 at Harrisburg. At the time, he was 27 years old, gave his occupation as laborer, and his residence as Hegins. According to […]
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 | August 22, 2019
A news brief found in the Harrisburg Telegraph of 27 October 1871 told of injuries received by Henry Knouff, previously identified and profiled here as a Civil War veteran from Millersburg, Dauphin County, while he was working on construction of a part of the Northern Central Railway: Our Millersburg correspondent writes: A man by the […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 17, 2019
William D. Haas was born on 13 March 1843 in Perry County, Pennsylvania, and died on 5 October 1919 in South Renovo, Clinton County, Pennsylvania. He is buried at Fairview Cemetery, Clinton County, Pennsylvania. His grave marker at the cemetery, pictured above from Findagrave, indicates he was born in 1844 (not 1843 as other information […]
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 […]
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