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Gratz During the Civil War – Leonard Reedy House

| September 18, 2011

Leonard Reedy (1776-1837) purchased this property from Simon Gratz in 1818.  He had been living on the property for about two years, so the earliest parts of the present house probably date to 1816.  Reedy was a gunsmith and was well known throughout the region.  After Leonard’s death, his widow Elizabeth continued to live here, […]

Finding Cemeteries in the Lykens Valley Area

| March 2, 2011

In yesterday’s post, examples were given on how to use the Find A Grave web site to locate individual graves of Civil War soldiers.  In the post today, examples will be given on how to locate cemeteries in the area covered by this Civil War Research Project.  The Find A Grave site is an excellent […]

Finding Civil War Veterans’ Graves

| March 1, 2011

One resources which is especially helpful in locating graves of Civil War soldiers is the web site “Find A Grave.” The site was created in 1995 by Jim Tipton, who states, “I created the Find A Grave website because I could not find an existing site that catered to my hobby of visiting the graves […]