Pvt. Wayne H. Patrick - Nanty Glo - Probably around 1942

 

The Letters - May 11, 1915 - To Mrs. Anna Hay in Florida from Marion (must have just had a baby) in Johnstown

May 7, 1915

Dear Aunt Anna,

I think of you often but time seems full. Soon I will realize what my mother had to do having three daughters and hers so close together. I have Marion, Sara, Anna and Elizabeth almost the same names as the "Dibert girls". 

We are all pretty well and baby doing nicely & is very good. See her lovely hair & it is or was very black & shiny. I haven't seen your folks for a long time but yesterday I went by & the place looks good. Trees scraped & in blossom, lawn has been rolled & looks fine. I want to put my seeds in today. 

I suppose you know Cora (?) has a daughter born Feb. 27 Margaret Alice? She is a lovely baby & very good. Looks very much like the mothers side, I think. I finally had to put Ellen out, just shortly before baby came. She thought I couldn't get along without her and took things in her hands & was very imperdent. She is up at Linton's. 

Baumers are anxious to get moved tho. the house is far from ready. The  Shemels may go into their Moxham house. Do you know that Mrs. Jane Tittle died last week & and was buried here yesterday?

It is hard thinking and writing with Sara talking & on and off my lap. 

Hope all are well. Give my love to Dora with lots for Aunt Anna.

Marion

 

Civil War - Week of February 12, 1863 - National Events Round Up & Local Troop Happenings

Ulysses S. Grant continued efforts to capture the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg. In Washington, new banking measures were enacted in the absence of southern opposition. In Virginia, the Federal Army of the Potomac was reorganized under its new commander, Joseph Hooker. The Confederacy continued seeking foreign recognition, and another international crisis loomed when a U.S. ship captured a British merchant vessel.

John A. McClernand continues to protest that he should lead the Federal expedition against Vicksburg, while Ulysses S. Grant proceeds to go ahead and lead it himself, despite criticisms from his subordinates. Joseph Hooker works to reorganize and revitalize the demoralized Federal Army of the Potomac. 

U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward unilaterally declines an offer by French Emperor Napoleon III to mediate the conflict between the U.S. and the Confederacy.

General P.G.T. Beauregard, commanding the Confederate defenses in South Carolina and Georgia, issues a proclamation warning citizens that a Federal attack on either Charleston or Savannah is imminent.

President Jefferson Davis tries to convince General Joseph E. Johnston to take personal command of the Confederate Army of Tennessee at Tullahoma. A U.S. warship seizes a British merchant vessel in neutral waters, which threatens to cause an international crisis.

The National Council of Cherokee Indians approves resolutions repealing its ordinance of secession, renouncing its support for the Confederacy, declaring new support for the U.S., and abolishing slavery in the Cherokee Nation.

Lt. Col. B. McDermit - 54th Pa

Ellis R. Williams  133rd - Co. F

David James - 11thPa - Co. A. Cambria Guards

George Berkey - 133rd Co. F.

James Litzinger - 55th Pa Co. A

Evan Evans

James S. Ramsey of Johnstown now in Libby Prison.

 

Heading up the Old Road at Grandview - Mrs. Daniel J. Morrell and Mrs. James McMillen Memorials

 

Pvt. John P. Meszaros - Nanty Glo & Pvt. Louis Kuhar - Nettleton - (Nanty Glo) - Probably around 1942

 

June 10, 1867 - GRAPHIC - Violent Johnstown Mill Death - Cambria Freeman

Horrible death of Lepold Geiser  - Rolling Mill - possibly pushed by a man named John Brimmer

 

Franklin Street Church - 1889 Survivor Building

 

Pfc. Donald C. Elliott - Nanty Glo - 1942

 

Civil War - Week of February 5, 1863 - Lots of Local Troop Letters Home - Very Interesting Reading

James M. Rea, James Quinn and William F. Prosser

Richard Parkins - 133d PA, James Sheehan

19th Inf. Co. C - Capt. Thomas C. Williams

Sgt. Shaffer, Corp. Benj. Davis, Corp. Shroat, Pvt. Bennett Crossly, Emigh Griffith, Hardnden Hunt, Smay, Snyder

19th - Inf. Co. C

CAMP NEAR MURFEESBORO

January 9, 1863

11th - Cambria Guards - Capt. Jim Skelly

FROM OR VOLUNTEERS

NEAR BELLE PLAINS LANDING

January 26, 1863

William W. Davis

Richard R. Davis, James P. Rummel;

11th - PA. Cambria Guards

January 19, 1863

 

Trolley Time - Broad Street heading towards Coopersdale Bridge

 

Charles Evanicsko - Nanty Glo & Pvt. John Yokitis - Nanty Glo - Probably around 1942

 

The Letters - May 7, 1915 - To Mrs. Anna Hay - Johnstown from Sister Madge - Philadelphia

                                                                                                  1614 Wallace St. Phils. Pa.

                                                                                                  May 7th 1915

My dear Sister Anna,

Your letter was a very pleasant surprise to me this morning and was followed in a few hours by the arrival of the box of grape fruit which was another happy surprise, for I am exceedingly fond of that luscious fruit. I had also a letter from Madge today, asking if I had heard from you and when you were coming North for you had promised to stop in Washington.

I am very glad to be able to tell her I had heard from you—and in a very substantial way also but you said nothing about coming home. I don't blame you for remaining in that lovely climate. It is so very changeable here—after the taste of warm balmy breezes we had in April now we are having now and cold cloudy days again and will have to light the furnace fire again to make us comfortable.

I can not thank you enough and my dear good old friend Lizzie Andrews (Bonacker) for the fine treat you have given me. Charlie and I shall enjoy it—I assure you. The fruit is fine—so large and luscious I have tested it already.

Just say to that good little auntie of yours that I would love dearly to see her, and I think the best way for her to see me and all her other friends up here, would be for her to come home with you—now could you not make that arrangement with her? I hope Dora has entirely recovered from her operation by this time and she could come along. Jennie Pringle now Mrs. Ed King and I, have many talks over the days of long ago, her youngest daughter lives at Swarthmore near the city—and she spends so much of her time there we get to see each other quite often . I hope to hear that you approve of my plan and that she coming.

Charlie & I spent a day down at John's about ten days ago—All were well then. They had quite a hospital for a while last month. Alice had her hands full—what a wonderful little manager she is. I have been trying to do some housecleaning but let me tell you something it goes mighty slow, as Dr, Gerhard told me not very long ago "You are not young anymore!" and I have to go slow.

The McMillen party is still at the "Bellvue???" Expect to go to New York this month sometime. Ida Endsley has been out in Germantown for several weeks staying with Lide's children. Mr. & Mrs. Fairman having gone to California to the Exposition. They expect to return this week and then Ida returns home.

Now please let me know when we are to see you all here—I know you do not like to write letters but—I hope that your auntie has not the same failing. 

Thanking you both again for your great kindness and with much love from Charlie and myself—

very Sincerely

Sister Madge