August 1882 - Derelict Husband Found Hiding in Cambria CIty & Two Obits that are buried in St. Columba Cemetery - Cambria Freeman

Francis Trabold found by his daughter hiding from his wife in Germany in Cambria City.

Miss Jennie Cox - Conemaugh Boro - buried in St. Columba Cemetery.

Mrs. Ann Markey - Cambria City - buried at St. Columba Cemetery.

 

January 1881 - Boy Killed Throwing Snowballs at Train, 1653 Violin, Stable Moving Accident & Dogs Dig up Corpses from (Union) Cemetery to Munch On - Cambria Freeman

Albert Mullen of Prospect killed by train while throwing snowballs. 

Violin from 1653 in Johnstown - J. Cohen

Third Ward Stable Moving Accident - Richard Jones and David Boyle. 

Doogs dig and chew up corpses from Union Cemetery chew on - Johnstown, Union Street School kids help collect the bones off the wild dogs. 

 

September 1880 - Train vs Man in Morrellville & Circus Folk Honor One of their Own at Sandyvale Cemetery - Cambria Freeman

Samual Gardner - sat on train track and got hit of course. 

James Cassam - Circus Clown killed on railroad near Johnstown in 1879. He was buried at Sandyvale and when Cooper, Bailey Circus was in town this month - they stopped by and played dirges in the cemetery. 

 

Odds & Ends - Conemaugh Furnace was located down by Seward & 14 Year Old Killed in Mill - April 1877 - Cambria Freeman

James Darby - Cambria City - Conemaugh Furnace.

John Jones - 14 year old killed in Mill buried at Sandyvale. 

 

April 5, 1869 - Local Correspondence - CAMBRIA FREEMAN - New businesses to old burial ground

 

Tragic Story of Two Floods

Grandview Cemetery and 1936 Flood coffins.

Irony of Two Great Floods - April 1936

Union Park - Mary E. Messenger - headstone.

War Markers - 6 April 1936

Revolutionary War veterans Samual Cole and George Lucas - markers at Union Cemetery - now located at Grandview Cemetery.

Unknown Plot - Grandview Cemetery

Buzz Wagner Funeral

Not the best of shots - but a rare one - the funeral of the first Ace of WWII - Buzz Wagner up Grandview Cemetery.

Grandview

Grandview Cemetery

High Above

You don't run across too many old shots like this of Grandview Cemetery from the air.

More Sandyvale

More on cleaning up Sandyvale Cemetery - 1961

Cleaning up the Past

A group of volunteers cleaning up Sandyvale Cemetery around 1961.

Sandyvale

Another look at Sandyvale - early 1960's.

Sandyvale

Sandyvale Cemetery - 1950's

Union Park

VJ Repeat - Union Park now the site of the War Memorial.

Cleaning Out The Union

Construction crews working on clearing out the old Union Cemetery - now the site of the War Memorial.

Sandyvale Cemetery

Another great shot from a VJ Facebook member. You are looking at one of the best shots of Sandyvale you'll ever see. 

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St. Stephen's Cemetery - 1930

St. Stephens Cemetery. If you are looking at it from the bottom - this is over to the left in the middle of the cemetery. This was taken in November of 1930.