CIVIL WAR - Week of March 12, 1863 - Local Troop Letter Home & Local Soldier Obits

FROM OUR VOLUNTEERS

NEAR STOENMAN'S SWITCH, VA

March 7, 1863

133rd PA Co. F

Col. Speakman, Sgt. John O. Evans, Sgt. James J. Will

Lt. J.H. Lenheart

Lemuel Davis and David N. Evans of Ebensburg

Obits - Sgt. William W. Evans 11th-Cambria Guards

Augustine G. McAteer - 12th PA Co. C

David Pryce - 133rd Co. F

Sgt. William C. Barbour - 11th Pa - Cambria Guards

Capt. Burke - 11th Co. A - Cambria Guards

 

Twin Rock Brothers - Corp. Bert L. Adams & Pvt. Ellsworth Adams

 

Trolley Time - Chandler and Strayer - Clarks Dairy Store

 

Brother-in-laws - Corp. David E. Ling & Staff Sgt. Clarence D Bracken - Vintondale

 

July 30, 1868 - More on Tad Lincoln in Cresson and other Interesting Tidbits

A German named John Widman falls of bridge near company store. 

Scotch miner John Hodgets - on train tracks near Johnstown

Tad Lincoln tries to jump a moving train.

 

July 9, 1868 - Odds & Ends

Mrs. Lincoln and son Tad staying at Cresson

Reigart - unknown first name drowned at Dornick Point.

Newborn infant found dead near Union Cemetery.

Whacked by baseball

 

The Letters - May 21, 1915 - To Mrs. Anna Hay (from Johnstown currently in Florida) from Mrs. Margaret Roberts in Philadelphia

Oak Lane, Phila. 5,21,'15

My dear Mrs. Hay,

I feel quite delinquent in being so slow in acknowledging the receipt of your card and of the delicious grape fruit which arrived safely and which has been a real treat. Accept hearty thanks for my choice (?) of it; we have all enjoyed it. 

As you know Mrs. Austin was in Johnstown for a short visit *see previous letter I posted). She felt that she must go this month between the dates of important club meetings here and also at a time when your fine apple orchard, of which she had heard so much, was in bloom. It was a matter of regret that her visit antidated your return. 

Shall you be able to take us in on your return trip? I trust you may, as I have very pleasant recollections of your visit here two years ago. I greatly enjoy an agreeable companion when we can sew together and enjoy the fresh air on the porch. I was very much pleased with Mrs. Fisher, her son, also; they are the kind of people that I wish to know better.

Mrs. Austin comes home each time more in love with her son-in-law—a very pleasant state of affairs which I feel sure will always continue. It is quite certain that love is the greatest thing in the world. 

I suppose the awful war (WWI - started in 1914 - U.S. entered in 1917) is as disturbing to you and your relatives in the South as it is to us in Phila. May Heaven send a speedy end to such horrors.

With all good wishes and hoping to see you in the near future.

Sincerely Yours, 

Margaret L Roberts 

 

November 2, 1913 to December 14, 1913 - The Famous Billy Sunday's Revival Campaign in Johnstown

These two pictures show different angles of the same area. That odd building on the left hand side tucked next to where Point Stadium is now -along the river -  was the temporary - Turtle-Back Tabernacle built on Johns Street. 

The Turtle-Back is seen from behind the parked cars. Over on the left hand side - about half way up the hillside is Rolling Mill Mine.

The multi-week revival led to thousands of conversions, and helped create the YWCA in Johnstown.

March 16, 1943 - William M. Sladki - Norton Road - Johnstown

 

Trolley Time - Strayer & Chandler

 

March 2, 1943 - IN RADIO SCHOOL - Cpl. Jake Stefanon - Ebensburg R.D.1

 

January 6, 1868 - Johnstown Train Murder

Death of Charles Parker stabbed and killed by a man by the last name of Hull or Hall.