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Thursday, July 2, 2026

September 1898 - Hit by LIghtning, Eagle vs Sheep & Balloon Rides

Walnut Grove - Curry house hit by lightning

John Peeler  - Richland - Eagle vs Sheep

Ed Fredricky - Balloon Rides

 

CIVIL WAR - Week of September 25, 1862 - Local Muster Rolls, Barkers Guards (Ebensburg) & Troop Movements

Capt. Josiah K.Hite, 2nd Lt. William McKee, 2nd Lt. Robert Tommins

Capt. William Linton
Capt. Litzinger - Ebensburg and Capt Cole - Carrolltown










Company E - Barker's Guards - Muster Roll




Watkins Jones - KILLED
Sgt. Peter Kaylor - WOUNDED





 

The Model Cafe - 136 Market Street


 

Pvt. John J. Smartz - Nanty-Glo


 

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

July 1898 - A Girl Who Can Shoot, Houses at Nanty-Glo, Stutzman Farm & Idlewild Park

Louis Surock breaking into home of John S. Benshoff - shot by his daughter Kate Benshoff.

Houses At Nant-y-Glo

Jacob Stutzman and William S. Stutzman - wheat cutting - Upper Yoder

Going to Idlewild

 

CIVIL WAR _ Week of August 29, 1862 - Local Muster Rolls - Lots of Names

MUSTER ROLL OF CAPT. KOPELIN'S COMPANY - Johnstown Company
Captain - Abraham Kopelin, Lt.-  John Downey, Powell Stackhouse, Sgt. - John B. Hay, Jas M. Duncan, Jas A. Kenly, James S. Orr, Theo L. Heyer,  Corps. - Oberlin N. Ramsey, Daniel Fitzpatrick, George Barclay, William Slack, D.G. McLaughlin, William R. Jones, Casper W. Easley
Musicians - David Davis, James P. Ambrurst, Wagoner Isaac Benninger, Privates - John R. Acres, Bernard Keilan, William Arentrue, George W. Karnes, John Benninger, George M. King, Andrew Benninger, Dorsey King, Daniel Benshoff, William King, William Bowers, Frank Kohr, Leonard Boyer, George W. Kountz, George L. Bowser, Chauncey F. Kountz, Isaac B. Bowser, George Lemon, Robert Brown, Morris Lenis
William B. Brooks, William H. Levergood, N.W. Brown, Jacob Lightner, Lewis W. Buck, Paul McCreary, Daniel Burket, F.B. McClelland, Anthony Carroll, George W. Metzbaugh, Thomas Campbell, Harry Metzgar, Edward Cassiday, Elais W. Miller, John Christang, Alec Montgomery, Jacob Cattell, Henry Myers, J. Frank Condon, Joseph Orris, Isaac Cramer, William Peck, Owen W. Davis, John Price
Charles Deets, Jordan Pringle, William Douglass, Robert Purdy, James Eldridge, Caradoc Reese, John Eldridge, John L. Boyer, D.J. Edwards, George A. Sayler, Jacob Fockler, Hezekiah Scritchfield, J.M. Folsom, Frank Shryrock, James H. Geer, Samuel Singleton, Frederick Goberth, John Spade, David Goughenour, Thomas Taylor, Solomon Hale, William J. Thomas, Horam Helsell, John Watkins
Thomas P. Hill, Lewis Wehn, William Hopkins, David A. Wilson, Joseph M. Horton, Smiley S. Wilson, David Hudson, John Williams, Josiah Hudson, Jared Williams, John Hudson, William H. Williams, Frederick Kelse, D. Wineland

Col. John M. Power
Another Johnstown Company
Mr. John Roberts, Co. A, 11th Pa