Norman Gasbarro | August 11, 2017
Occasionally a post-Civil War veteran’s name appears in the 1890 Census along with regiment and dates of service. Usually though, the military service given begins late in 1865 and ends about three years later, which was the usual term of enlistment in a United States infantry regiment. In the case of Samuel H. Sharron, who […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 9, 2017
The name Aaron Snyder appears on the Millersburg Soldier Monument. Who was he and what was his Civil War service? In 1890, the widow Catherine Snyder, living in Harrisburg, reported that her deceased husband, Aaron Snyder, had served in the Civil War, but she did not name a regiment, company, or dates of service. Subsequent […]
Norman Gasbarro | July 31, 2017
Isaac Snoke was born 2 May 1826 and at the time of the Civil War, he enrolled in and honorably served in the 107th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company D, as a Private. The record card, shown above from the Pennsylvania Archives, notes that he was mustered into service on 24 January 1862 at Harrisburg, and was […]
Norman Gasbarro | July 28, 2017
The obituary of George A. Singer appeared in the Pittsburgh Daily Press, 27 August 1910: REV. GEORGE A. SINGER Rev. George A. Singer, 67 years old, for 42 years a member of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died Thursday afternoon in a sanitarium in Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania, where he had been […]
Norman Gasbarro | July 17, 2017
The Harrisburg Telegraph of 29 June 1927 provided information on the funeral of James L. Seebold. He was a founding member of the Kilpatrick Post of the G.A.R. in Millersburg and was previously mentioned here in several blog posts. FUNERAL FOR J. L. SEEBOLD MILLERSBURG, 29 June 1927 — James L. Seebold, 88 years, died […]
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