Ideal Park/Fun City - 1950's

Female - 2nd Lt. Frances Casper - Maple Street - Walter Reed Hospital - Nanty-Glo

 

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

Mendenhall Hospital - Chandler Avenue - Most of my mothers side were born there

 

TWO SONS IN SERVICE - Pvt. John Longazel, Sgt. Michael Longazel & Emil Longazel - Pergrim Hill - Nanty-Glo

 

July & August 1897 - Famous 1889 Survivor in a Lawsuit, Morrellville Train Accident, Butcher Nearly Frozen to Death & Woodvale Shooting

Known for her 1889 Flood fame - (she lost her husband and seven children) 35 year old Anna Fenn-Barnes in a lawsuit against her 75 year old husband Charles Barnes. 

Son of Joseph Stibich of Morrellville - hit by train.

Johnstown Butcher James Hudack nearly freezes to death in own freezer.

Woodvale Shooting - Daniel McCauley - Maple Avenue shot by Mrs. Nellie Groah

 

Dec. 22, 1943 - George Hurtak - Belsano

 

January & February 1896 - Turned Up After Missing 30 Years, 44 Foot Long Sausage, New Morrellville Plant & Murdered His Cousin

David Hughes - S.N. Ringler - 44 foot sausage!

Frank Hogan - Morrellville Copper Plant

Daniel Ressler of Cramer killed his cousin 

 

CIVIL WAR - Week of August 22, 1862 - Interesting Crop of Letters Home - Another Cambria Guard Company

Our Soldiers---From Ebensburg to Camp Curtin

Lt. J.C. Noon

Capt. Kopelin.

From Our Volunteers, Camp Near Harrison's Landing (Virginia), August 8, 1862

11th PA Reg.

KILLED

Capt. A. Lewis, George K. Brown, Daniel Helman, James Hoon, John McClune, Richard E. Jones, Thomas McCammon and Emanuel Urban.

WOUNDED

Lt. James C. Burke, Camp Moore, Sgt. J.E. Scanlan, John McBride, Corp. William A. Leavy, George McBroom, Thompson Carney, Hilarian O'Connell, Thomas P. Dumm, William Powell, Eichard R. Davis, William W. Wagoner, David T. James, Henry Wareham, Thomas Williams.

Yours Truly, Daniel D. Jones

New Company - Cambria Guards - No. 2

Capt. John M. Johns,  Lt, William A Scott, F.M. Flanagan, Sgt. James J. Will,  J.O. Brookbank, Meshac Thomas,  John N. Evans, John O. Evans, Corps. Samuel W. Davis, V.S. Barker, Nathan Sanders, H. J. Humphreys, V.S. Barker, J.F. Stearns, J.M. Thompson, Peter Urban, Andrew J. Litzinger, John J. Griffith

Privates - Peter Aerhart, Valentine W. Krise, Richard J. Bennet, John Kimball, George W. Berkey, Daniel L. Kleanelsee, John Broombaugh, Daniel Long, Patrick A. Burns, David D. Lewis, Melville G. Blanchard, James M. Longwell, Patrick Burns, Samuel Lamer, Stephen Conrad, Ben T.G. McCloskey, Henry Carland, Lawrence McMunnigle, William A. Davis, Richard B. McDowell, Thomas T. Deveraux, Joseph Mack, Robert Deveraux, William Makin, Hosea J. Evans, Evan J. Michael, William M. Evans, David Morgan, Andrew E. Evans, Levi Moore

Thomas J. Evans, Peter Melhorn, Hugh E. Evans, Joseph Miller, Elbridge G. Evans, David D. Pryce, David I. Evans, Daniel Powell, Lewis R. Edwards, Joseph W. Parker, James M. Edelblute, Edward Patterson, Cyrus H. Fronk, Edwin E. Roberts, John Fox, Robert H. Singer, William D. Gobson, Levi Severance, Wilson Gallagher, Albion A. Severance, John W. Hughes, Tobias Snyder, William W. Howell, Lewis Snyder, Henry P. Horn, Christian Shinefelt, Edward J. Humphreys, Martin Shoffner

Richard M. Jones, Francis A. Sutton, Alexander Jones, Eibridge Stiles, Edward Jones Jr, David Thomas, John M. Jones, John A. Thompson, William W. Jones, William R. Tibbott, Milton Jones, Ellis R. Williams, Evan E. Jones, James W. Whitehead, Evan E. Jones, James W. Whitehead, Levi Keith, Demetrius Weakland, Peter Keith, John F. Wiggins, Joseph Kinsel, Robert E.B. Waugeman