Enders Family Civil War Veterans
One family with Dauphin County origins had a sure heads up on identifying and honoring its Civil War veterans for the Civil War Sesquicentennial. In 1764, Capt. Philip Christian Enders […]
Enders – Minnick’s General Store, 1963
A 1963 advertisement for Minnick’s General Store, Enders, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. _________________________________ From the 1963 yearbook, Hal-Wayne-Son, of the Halifax High School, Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Available in digital form […]
George S. Myers (1893-1946) – World War I Veteran
GEORGE S. MYERS George S. Myers, age 52 years, a veteran of World War I, did at this home, Halifax R.D. 2, Tuesday evening. He was a member of the […]
Local Reminiscences for Home Historians – January 26, 1905
Sixth in a series of nine 1904-1905 newspaper articles in which two old-timers are portrayed reminiscing about the Lykens Valley of the past. The two fictional characters, the “old railroader” […]
Ida Rebecca [Hoover] Sheesley (1873-1957)
An undated cabinet card photograph of Ida Rebecca [Hoover] Sheesley (1873-1957), daughter of Henry Hoover (1834-1900) and Amanda “Mandy” [Rickert] Hoover (1839-1926). On 20 September 1896 at Enders, Dauphin County, […]
The Disappearance of Dolly Laudenslager, 1931
A news item appeared in the Elizabethville Echo of 29 October 1931 which told of the efforts of George F. Laudenslager of Millersburg to seek help from the police in […]
The Halifax Schools
A 215-page-book, A Dream Fulfilled: Boyer Memorial School and a History of Other Halifax Schools Throughout the Centuries, 1794 Forward, by Pearl Bretz Hane, was published in 2014 by the […]
World War II – John S. Lebo – Killed in Action in Germany, 1944
RITES HELD TUESDAY FOR PVT. JOHN F. LEBO [1947] Funeral services for Pvt. John F. Lebo, Halifax, R.D. 1, whose body was returned to the United States from Europe, October […]