Harmony Township & vicinity

Stevens Point, PA

Exploring the history of Harmony Township, PA and vicinity.

Month: April 2009

Extracts From Books I and II, Susquehanna Deaths, Susquehanna County Courthouse, Montrose, PA (Brandt Burials – Unmarked Graves)

Harmony Deaths 1893-1905 The entries below, abstracted from Books I & II, Susquehanna Deaths, Recorder’s Office, Susquehanna Co. Court House, Montrose, PA, are either deaths that occurred in Harmony Twp. or deaths that occurred elsewhere with burial in the Brandt Cemetery. Charles Alexander, married, b Jackson, Farmer, d…

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Extracts From Old Records (Mumford Funeral Home, Starrucca, PA) Susquehanna County Historical Society, Montrose, PA (Unmarked Graves at Brandt)

Bowdish, Miles - Died July 22, 1917, Aged 79 Brooker, Dewitt C. - Died Apr. 21, 1913, Aged 71 Butts, Geraldine - Died Sept. 2, 1930 Butts, Nathan Jr. - Died Aug. 2, 1923 Aged 25 Butts, Nathan - Died July 27, 1947, Aged 54 yrs. Butts, Rachel…

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The Brandt Cemetery

It is a warm summer morning in Brandt and a high-stepping horse draws a battered two wheeled cart up through the dewy grasses to a low meadow. Black plumes bounce with his every step, black garlands drape a wooden casket. The horse tramps nervously, flicking his ears back…

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Dr. J. S. Brandt

Dr. J. S. Brandt – Dental Surgeon, Erie Ave. over Post Office, Susquehanna The prominent and leading gentleman engaged in the dental profession in this part of the State of Penna. is Dr. J. S. Brandt, whose dental parlors are neatly and tastefully arranged, and provided with every…

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Abram Walker

View the Abram Walker gallery Because Ianthus Walker doesn’t mention anything about his parents or siblings in all of his Civil War Pension Papers, I was intrigued when an Abram Walker gave a deposition on Ianthus’s behalf in an affidavit dated 1891. In the Commemorative Biographical Record by…

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The Town of Brandt, PA

With just a small paragraph written on the back of an early 1900’s postcard of Brandt, I wonder if the printer, C. D. Burton, had any idea of how prophetic his brief description of this little village really was. With his use of the word “vicissitudes” – the…

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Newspaper Items (Stevens Point Cemetery Burials) From Research at the Historical Society in Montrose, PA

George Kuhn, aged 55 years, died suddenly at his home on the outskirts of Susquehanna on Tuesday 7-20-1920. He is survived by one son, who resides in Stevens’ Point. Montrose Independent Republican 8-6-1920 Roland Kuhn, of Stevens Point, aged 18 years, son of George Kuhn of Oakland, lost…

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