The Letters - May 15, 1915 - To Mrs. Anna M. Hay from Clara R. Austin

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                                                                    Oak Lane, July 15.1915

Dear Mrs. Hay,

We are anxious to see you and visit with you all, and hope all of you can come to Oak Lane on Sunday the 26^th to dinner. I have asked Mrs. Fisher and Charlie; and hope your son and wife, with John, Alice and George will come with you. I am sure they will accept the invitation through you without my writing also to them.

I know their place is so cool and comfortable that it will be somewhat of a trial to leave it if the weather is warm as it is today; but we have not seen any of you for so long. I do hope we may have the pleasure of seeing you all then. We will have dinner about half past one. I must not forget to give you the mileage book, and will not mail it to you, so I hope surely to see you and to have a good visit together.

I am sorry I have no time cards to enclose, but trains leave the terminal for Oak Lane at 10.55 and 12.17—in case you prefer coming by train. Hoping to see you all on the 25th, and with kindest regards to all, I am

Lovingly, your friend,

Clara R. Austin

 

Downtown - 1951

1942 - Pvt. Thomas Sabo - Nanty Glo

 

March 1951 - The Cochran Tattler - Loaded with Names

 

1941 - Pvt. Robert J. Caldwell - Nanty Glo - Looks like he would have been a Pearl Harbor Survivor

 

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