Norman Gasbarro | March 30, 2016
From the Philadelphia Inquirer, 20 February 1906: CARS CRUSH SHANTY: KILL WAR VETERAN Special to the Inquirer SHAMOKIN, Pennsylvania, 19 February 1906 — While sitting in a shanty near the Reading Railway, near here, to-day, Charles Henning, an aged war veteran and well known local resident, met a horible death. Two freight cars left the […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 1, 2016
On 13 November 2015, Who was Inglis V. Fairbain of Tower City? was presented in a blog post here. Within a few days, a comprehensive summary was received from Debby Rudy, a regular research contributor who lives in the Lykens Valley area. Her response answers many of the questions asked in the first blog post, […]
Norman Gasbarro | October 30, 2014
A Civil War grave marker found in the St. Paul’s (Artz) Church Cemetery, Sacramento, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, for Wandal Miller, who served in the 107th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company G, presented somewhat of a challenge to research due to his common surname. Wandal, who was more commonly found as Wendall Miller (or as he was located […]
Norman Gasbarro | July 20, 2014
Because there were possibly six Pennsylvanian who served in the Civil War who had the name “John Lebo,” at least two of whom were from the geographical area of this Civil War Research Project, this post intends to summarize some of the known information about the two and present some information about the other four. […]
Norman Gasbarro | August 2, 2013
One hundred years ago, on 2 August 1913, two explosions occurred in the East Brookside Colliery near Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, resulting in what was the worst mining disaster in the area and the eventual loss of life of twenty miners and laborers. The connection of this disaster to the family of Josiah Hand, […]
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