Norman Gasbarro | August 2, 2018
John Bower is buried at the Dayton National Cemetery, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. He died at the Soldiers’ Home in Dayton on 27 June 1909. On his stone in the cemetery, his regiment and company are noted – 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company A. On 19 August, a 23 year-old John Bower enrolled at Schuylkill County […]
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 10, 2018
Sampson Wigmore, who was born in England in 1840, died in Tremont, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, on 22 October 1925. He is buried at the Charles Baber Cemetery in Pottsville. At the time of this writing, no obituary has been seen for him. There are two records of his death which were first consulted for this […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 8, 2018
James Spangler, born 3 October 1880, son of Civil War veteran George Spangler (1846-1921) of Lykens, was instantly killed on 16 July 1925 while working on Level 3 of the Short Mountain Colliery, when a shot that he and his fellow worker were preparing, exploded prematurely. The notice of the accident appeared in the Lykens […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 4, 2018
In 1924, a huge ceremonial Ku Klux Klan rally was held at Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, which was attended in great numbers by Klan members and want-to-be Klan members from the Lykens Valley. Attendance was undoubtedly enhanced by the closing of the collieries from Lykens to Pine Grove and by the special excursion train that […]
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