Find A Grave - Pottsville

Brumm, Charles Napoleon b. June 9, 1838 d. January 11, 1917
US Congressman. A native of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, he was in his second year of law school when the Civil War erupted. On April 21, 1861 he was commissioned as a 1st Lieutenant in Company I, 5th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, a three-month enlistment regiment. He served through the July 1861 First Bull Run Campaign, and was mustered out upon the expiration of his enlistment on July 25, 1861. On November 18, 1861 he was commissioned as a 1st Lieutenant of Company K, 76th Pennsylvania...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Charles Baber Cemetery, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA
Plot: Section DD, Lot 10-12
Brumm, George Franklin b. January 24, 1880 d. May 29, 1934
US Congressman. A 1907 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, he was an attorney for the conscription board in World War I. He was a Republican Congressman from Pennsylvania from 1923 to 1927, and again from 1929 until he died in office in 1934. He was the son of Congressman Charles Napoleon Brumm. (Bio by: Garver Graver)
Charles Baber Cemetery, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA
Daubert, Jake b. April 7, 1884 d. October 9, 1924
Major League Baseball Player. Played Major League baseball as a first base from 1910 to 1924 with the Brooklyn Dodgers and Cincinnati Reds. Led the NL in batting average in 1913 and 1914. Helped the Dodgers to their first World Series in 1916 (where they lost to the Red Sox). He was also a member of the 1919 Cincinnati Reds who defeated the Chicago White Sox in that scandal tainted Series. One of the best defensive first basemen of the deadball era, he had his fifteen year career ended right...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Cause of death: Appendicitis operation
Charles Baber Cemetery, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA
Plot: Section 5, Lot 5 E 1/2, Grave 1
Frick, Jacob Gellert b. January 23, 1825 d. March 5, 1902
Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He served as a Colonel in the Union Army in the 129th Pennsylvania Infantry. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for action on December 13, 1862 at Fredericksburg, Virginia and on May 3, 1863 at Chancellorsville, Virginia. His citation reads "At Fredericksburg seized the colors and led the command through a terrible fire of cannon and musketry. In a hand-to-hand fight at Chancellorsville, recaptured the colors of his regiment." (Bio by: Don Morfe)
Presbyterian Cemetery, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA
Plot: Lot 346 (Half way up the hill)
Hyde, Breed Noyes b. May 14, 1831 d. October 5, 1918
Civil War Union Army Officer. He attended the United States Military Academy in 1854, but did not graduate. He became a merchant in his native Vermont, where he lived until entering the Union Army after the start of the Civil War with a commission of Lieutenant Colonel in the 3rd Vermont Volunteer Infantry in June 1861. When the 3rd Vermont’s original commander, Colonel William Farrar Smith, was promoted to Brigadier General in August 1861, Breed N. Hyde was advanced to full Colonel to replace...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Charles Baber Cemetery, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA
Plot: Section X, Lot 7
Lessig, William Henry b. October 31, 1831 d. July 18, 1910
Civil War Union Army Officer. A successful mining engineer pre-Civil War, he recruited a company of men intended to be an independent light artillery battery, but was accepted as Company C, 96th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Commissioned it's Captain and commander on September 23, 1861, he led his men during the Spring-Summer 1862 Peninsular Campaign, where the regiment fought at the Battles of Gaines Mill and Malvern Hill. During the September 1862 Antietam Campaign, Major Lewis J...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Charles Baber Cemetery, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA
Plot: Section G, Lot 4
Nagle, James b. April 5, 1822 d. April 22, 1866
Civil War Union Brigadier General. During the Mexican American War, he served as an officer in Company B, 1st Pennsylvania Volunteers and assisted in the siege of Vera Cruz. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he organized the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry and was made Colonel. He commanded his brigade at the Second Bull Run, at Antietam and was promoted Brigadier General in September, 1862. In in June 1863, he organized the 39th Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia and participated in the Gettysburg...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Presbyterian Cemetery, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA
Palmer, Cyrus Maffet b. February 12, 1887 d. August 16, 1959
US Congressman. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1911, and commenced practice in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. He served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and was a Republican Congressman from Pennsylvania, serving from 1927 to 1929. He was a Judge of the common pleas court of Schuylkill County, twenty-first judicial district of Pennsylvania, from 1931 until his death in 1959. (Bio by: Garver Graver)
Charles Baber Cemetery, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA
Pleasants, Henry b. February 16, 1833 d. March 26, 1880
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. Served in the Civil War first as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 6th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (a 3-month enlistment regiment), then as as Lieutenant Colonel and commander of the 48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was a former mining engineer, and his regiment was made up of coal miners from the hills of Pennsylvania. During the Siege of Petersburg, Virginia, he came up with the idea of tunneling under Confederate lines and and planting a mine to...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Charles Baber Cemetery, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA
Plot: Section B, Lot 11
Reid, Robert Alexander b. January 22, 1842 d. April 25, 1929
Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He was an Ordinance Sergeant in the Union Army. He was awarded the Medal of Honor as a Private in Company G, 48th Pennsylvania Infantry for action on June 17, 1864 at Petersburg, Virginia. His citation reads "Capture of flag of 44th Tennessee Infantry (C.S.A.)." (Bio by: Don Morfe)
Odd Fellows Cemetery, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA
GPS coordinates: 40.6954002, -76.2012024 (hddd.dddd)
Sigfried, Joshua K. b. July 4, 1832 d. July 19, 1895
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. He began his service in defense of the Union soon after the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, being commissioned as Captain and commander of Company K, 6th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry on April 22, 1861. The unit served first in Maryland, then in Virginia, and saw no action other then skirmishing. Mustered out then the regiment's enlistment expired on July 27, 1861, he helped raise and organize the 48th Pennsylvania Volunteer...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Charles Baber Cemetery, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA
Plot: Section A, Lot 9
Straub, Christian Markle b. 1804 d. June 7, 1860
US Congressman. He worked as a teacher, surveyor and merchant, studied law, and was admitted to the bar. Straub was also an original shareholder in Williamsport's West Branch Bank and several Pennsylvania railroads, including the Sunbury and Erie, and Pittsburg and Susquehanna, the Harrisburg and Sunbury, He served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1842. In the same year he was elected Schuylkill County Prothonotary and served until 1849, when he was elected county Sheriff. Straub...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Charles Baber Cemetery, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA
Strouse, Myer b. December 16, 1825 d. February 11, 1878
US Congressman. He immigrated with his family from the Bavarian city of Oberstrau to the US in 1832. Strouse was editor of Philadelphia's North American Farmer while he studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1855 and began practice in Pottsville. Strouse was elected to Congress as a Democrat and served two terms, 1863 to 1867. He then resumed practicing law and was attorney for the "Molly Maguires", a secret Irish-American organization that advocated, sometimes violently, better working...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Odd Fellows Cemetery, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA
Yuengling, David G. b. March 2, 1808 d. September 27, 1877
Businessman. He founded the Yuengling Beer Breweries. The German brewer David G. Jüngling immigrated to the United States in 1823 from Germany. He anglicized his surname from Jüngling to Yuengling and began the "Eagle Brewery" on Center Street in Pottsville, Pennsylvania in 1829. The Eagle Brewery changed its name to "D.G. Yuengling and Son" in 1873. Although the company's name changed, the bald eagle remained the company's emblem. In 1985, the Yuengling brewery was listed on the National...[Read More] (Bio by: Dave Feibusch)
Charles Baber Cemetery, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA

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