Norman Gasbarro | June 27, 2018
Readers of the “Gratz News” column of the Elizabethville Echo of 12 June 1913 were informed of the sudden and unexpected death of Daniel E. Artz. which occurred on 9 June 1913. Records establish his birth date and place as 28 March 1845, Hubley Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Simon Artz […]
Norman Gasbarro | March 30, 2018
Lazarus Zerbe, also known as Zerby, died in September 1905 in Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. According to his grave marker in the United Methodist Cemetery in Williamstown, he served in the 17th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H, as a Private. Confirmation of this service is found in the Pennsylvania Archives, but the service was in the […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 2, 2018
Buried together at the St. Paul (Artz) Cemetery in Sacramento, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, are two veterans of the Civil War, or so it would seem from the bronze G.A.R. flag-holder markers adjacent to their grave stones. Samuel Wenrich and Amelia [Faust] Wenrich were husband and wife. This is one of the few graves in the […]
Norman Gasbarro | September 12, 2016
The St. Paul United Church of Christ is located in Sacramento, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It is also known as the “Artz Church.” During the Civil War it was a union church serving both Lutheran and Reformed congregations. A transcription of the church records, which cover the period from 1839 to 1912, was made in […]
Norman Gasbarro | September 7, 2016
Today’s post begins the story of one of the most brutal and sensational murders ever committed in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania – that of Sarah Ann [Reed] Klinger, the widow of Civil War soldier Jacob Klinger. It is believed by some that the Jacob Klinger who served in the 172nd Pennsylvania Infantry in the Civil War […]
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