October 29, 1886 - Johnson Street Rails - Woodvale, 104 Year Old Minersville Lady, Missing Morrellville Wife & Mother & Marriages

Johnson Steel Street Rail Company setting up shop in Woodvale. 

Mrs. Grace Rodgers of Minersville dies at 194 years old. 

Mrs. George Gittings of Morrellville - wife of George Gittings - missing for almost a week.

Marriages

 

January 6, 1882 - Bucket of Water Proves Fatal, Elevator Accident & A Simple and Beautiful Act of Kindess for One Franklin Borough Family - Freeman

John Shire - 17 yr old - dies at parents house in Morrellville after getting dunked with a bucket of cold water.

Charles Unverzagt - 14 yr old - killed by an elevator at the Wood & Morrell Store. 

Miss Therea Harshberger of Franklin Borough who never had smallpox offers to take care of and nurse the small children of John Hoy of East Conemaugh. Kindness Indeed!

 

September 24, 1880 - Update on Cambria City Polish Murder Suspect & Man Falls thru Bridge near Morrellville - Cambria Freeman

Stanislaus Lambreskie - bail set at $3,000 in Cambria City Murder. Hearing set for December. 

Sylvester Varner - falls thru bridge at Bheam's crossing near Morrellville along the Fast Line East (PA RR) 

 

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. 

 

Fairfield Avenue

 

8th Grade - Garfield - 1954

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Three Priests on Road to Recovery - 1944

 

St. Therese Church - Decker Avenue - 1940's

 

May 30, 1870 - Cambria Freeman - Memorial Day, Little Boy burned in Conemaugh Boro, Circus comes to town, Coal Mine Death, Woolen Mill Accident and Morrellville officially named

Bloch from Conemaugh Borough - Boro

Patrick Harkins - South Fork - Coal Mine Accident. Girl named Scott - Woodvale Woolen Mill Accident.

 

Trolley Time

Intersections of Strayer, Decker and Corrine. Old Koch's on left by the stop sign. New Koch's is now where the second trolley is coming out of Corrine. Both old Koch's and the bar on the left are now gone. 

 

St. Paul Lutheran - Virginia Avenue - Early 1970's

 

St. Paul's Church - Virginia Avenue - late 20's

Bottom Row - left to right: Conrad Becker, Sam Pollak, Rev. Malzon, (?) Hennel, Henry Bock

Back Row - left to right: John Schultz, Arnold Gloor, August Fehse, (?) Schulbert, John Becker

 

27 February 1936 - West End Citizens Association

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St. Paul Lutheran - Virginia Avenue - abt 1916

Besides my grandfather and one possible other - I have no names for the rest of the kids. 

 

West End Electric - 1953

 

West End Electric - 1953

 

Philco - 1953

 

Harris-Boyer - 1953

 

Morrellville Cleaners - 1953

 

Odds & Ends - 14 October 1892 - Johnstown Weekley Democrat

Morrellville Embankment Accident, Al Penrod, Johnson Steel, John Waters  and Hay's lot on Franklin Street.