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Women and the Civil War (Part 13)
Women and the Civil War” is an exhibit of photographs and stories of women who had family connections with soldiers of that war. It was first displayed at the Gratz Fair in September 2013, where it...
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Charles Noblet Buried in Pillow with Ku Klux Klan Rites, 1927
In April 1927, Charles N. Noblet, an accident victim, was buried at Pillow‘s Grandview Cemetery, with full Ku Klux Klan honors conducted at graveside. This post is a continuation of the reporting on...
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Samuel Snyder of Berrysburg, Mifflin Township & Pillow
During the Civil War, Samuel Snyder of Mifflin Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, served in Captain Murray’s Cavalry Militia as a Private, from about 18 June 1863 to his discharge on an unknown...
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Obituary of John Weiser, 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry
An obituary of John Weiser appeared in the Elizabethville Echo, 9 March 1905. Mr. Weiser was a Civil War veteran from the area of Pillow, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, who served in the 12th...
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The Ku Klux Klan Funeral of Lenore Schwalm of Hegins, 1925
Lenore Felicia [Schwalm] Otto Stutzman died in 1925. Her obituary, which appeared in the West Schuylkill Herald of Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, told of many achievements in her life,...
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Conrad C. Berry – Lebanon Blacksmith Lived in Pillow and Millersburg
During the Civil War, Conrad C. Berry served in the 201st Pennsylvania Infantry, Company K, as a Private. The Pension Index Card (above, from Fold3) shows that on 18 September 1890, he applied for an...
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Abraham Campbell – Wife Found Dead in Murder Suicide
Abraham Campbell was born about 9 May 1835 in Northumberland County. During the Civil War he served in the 6th Pennsylvania Reserves [35th Pennsylvania Infantry], Company B, as a Private from 10...
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Obituary of Elias Dilfield – Born in Pillow, Died in Reading
Elias Dilfield, also found in the records as William Elias “Eli” Dilfield, died in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, on 1 December 1915. From the Reading Times, 13 December 1915: ELIAS DILFIELD...
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Charles Henry Laudenslager of Lykens
A recently discovered portrait of Civil War veteran Charles Henry Laudenslager (1847-1921), shown above, has prompted a revisiting of the information available on him to the Civil War Research...
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Obituaries of Michael Messner – Veteran from Pillow
Michael Messner, a Civil War veteran from Pillow, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, was born on 3 October 1942 and died 11 June 1917. He is buried at the Union Cemetery in Jordan Township (near Pillow),...
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