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Thursday, June 25, 2026

December 4, 1896 - Remarkable Accident - You Can Say That for Sure!!

Mrs.Archibald John of Morrellville has part of her finger and tendon pulled out in a wagon accident. 


 

Overlooking Kernville with Union Cemetery (War Memorial now) on the lower right - around 1900 or so

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February 13, 1945 - Cite Captive Flier (German Prisoner) - Sgt. Joseph R. Parana - Clymer


 

25 June 1929 - The Johnstown Democrat

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 Mr. & Mrs. Albert Baxter - daughter Doris, Mr. & Mrs. Harry Sutton, Mr. & Mrs. Paul Wolf - son, Mr. & Mrs. Frank Hasselbauer - son, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Fleming - daughter Colista Mary, Mr. & Mrs. Miles Shaffer - son, Mr. & Mrs. Lester Burke - daughter Jean LaVerne, Mr. & Mrs. Earl Kerns - daughter, Mr. & Mrs. Robert Yost - daughter, Mr. & Mrs. William Leckey - son, Mr. & Mrs. James Carl - daughter, Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Strehler - son, Mr. & Mrs. William McKee - daughter Jane, Mr. & Mrs. Albert Podrasky - daughter, Mr. & Mrs. Leo Spantinato - son, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Burke - son, Mr. & Mrs. J.D. Stickler - son - Jennings Dwight, Mr. & Mrs. George Coffin - son, Mr. & Mrs. Logan Burkhart - daughter Miriam Jane, Mr. & Mrs. A. N. Reynolds - son, Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Kurcin - daughter Phyllis Elaine, Mr. & Mrs. Fred Wolford - son, Mr. & Mrs. W.G. Wilson - son Robert James.
Robert James Bischoff.
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Stephenson - Dabbs.
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Mrs. James Sloan, Miss Anna Vojtila, Samuel Lee, Louis Helsel, Stanley Kaponile.
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William Markel, Elmer Stiffler, J. Stineman Slick, Gomer Dull, Mrs. Zelda Callett.

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

November 1896 - Update on the Idiot who shot his Wife & Johnstown Firemen Convention

Albert Koontz  - charged with shooting his wife.
State Firemen Convention at Johnstown

 

CIVIL WAR - Week of July 30, 1862 - First Long - Local List of Dead, Wounded & Missing - Lots of Names & Johnstown Flood of 1862

From Our Volunteers - Cambria Guards
11th Reserves, Co. A. 
In the Battles before Richmond
List of Dead, Wounded and Missing
July 25, 1862
Sgt. John E. Scanlan

Capt Lewis





Cambria Guard Members
KILLED
Capt. A. Lewis, John Gillespie
Richard Jones, Jacob Boring, George K. Brown
WOUNDED
Sgt. J.E. Scanlan, Thomas Williams, William A. Leavy, John McBride, George McBroom, Richard R. Davis, David T. James, William R. Powell, Thompson Carney, William W. Evans, Thomas P/ Dumm, John Keough, William E. Brown, Henry Wareham, Lt. James C. Burke
MISSING
Halarian O'Connell & Daniel Helman - supposed to be killed.




DEAD - Mr George J. Roberts - Cambria Guards  - 11th Pa Reserve, Co. A.


Johnstown Flood of 1862 - South Fork Dam



Robert E. Jones - 12th Pa Reg.