Antietam - The Welsh of Harpers Ferry

Mapleville and Funkstown clash at Funkstown in a crucial contest as the Independent League moves into its 11th week of play on Sunday with a trio of games. Antietam travels to Greencastle and Bakerton visits Mt. […]

May 30, 1958

30 May 1958

Death Certificate: Anna Rebecca Eichelberger

Name of Deceased Anna Rebecca Eichelberger Date of Death May 30, 1958 Place of Death County Jefferson City or Town Bakerton Length of Stay in City/Town 30 years Full Name of Hospital or Institution Duke Farm […]

May 30, 1958

30 May 1958

Death Register: Anna Rebecca Eichelberger

Line # 4 Name in Full Eichelberger, Anna Rebecca Date of Death 5/30/58 Date of Birth 6/30/1893 Age 64 Sex F Color W Father’s Name Thomas Hamilton Crampton Mother’s Maiden Name Mary Ellen Young Name of […]

June 27, 1935

27 Jun 1935

Hit-Run Charge Laid to W. Badger

Hit-Run Charge Laid to W. BadgerCHARLES TOWN, W Va., June 26 (Special). — William Badger, 37, was arrested at Bakerton, W. Va., last night and charged with hit-and-run driving in an automobile wreck near Antietam, Md., […]

September 5, 1934

5 Sep 1934

Gross: State Roads Quarry Foreman Drops Dead At Work

Chas. D. Gross Is Victim Of Heart Attack.State Roads Quarry Foreman Drops Dead At Work Tuesday. Stricken with an acute heart attack, Charles D. Gross, 60, foreman of a State Roads Commission corps, dropped dead at […]

June 15, 1934

15 Jun 1934

Obituary: Millard D. Jamison

Millard D. Jamison died at his home at Antietam at 3 o’clock this morning of Hodkins disease, aged 27. He is survived by his wife, three children, May, Francis and David; brothers, Edgar, Antietam; Albert, Bakerton; […]

August 19, 1932

19 Aug 1932

Death Certificate: David Henry Hetzel

County Jefferson District Harpers Ferry Town or City Bakerton Full Name David Henry Hetzel Residence Personal and Statistical Particulars Sex Male Color or Race White Single, Married, Widowed, or Divorced Married Husband or Wife of […]

October 26, 1916

26 Oct 1916

John Wright Removes to Bakerton Quarry

John Wright, who has been working at the Antietam Hotel for the past couple of years, has gone to the Bakerton lime quarries and is working there.

July 20, 1916

20 Jul 1916

Obit: John Thomas Badger

John Thomas Badger, son of Daniel and Elizabeth Badger, was born in Jefferson county, West Virginia, December 30, 1844, and died at his home near Charlottesville, Ind., May 18, 1916, aged 71 years, 4 months and […]

March 19, 1914

19 Mar 1914

Accident at Bakerton

Accident at Bakerton. A bad accident occurred yesterday morning at the limestone quarries of the Washington Building Lime Company at Bakerton, when Richard Brashears, of Sharpsburg, and John Hetzel, of Antietam, were painfully hurt. The two […]

January 4, 1912

4 Jan 1912

Charles Marshall, killed at ore bank.

Charles Marshall, aged 30 years, of Sharpsburg, was crushed by a large rock and almost instantly killed at the Virginia ore bank near Bakerton last Wednesday. Very little is known by his fellow-workmen as to how […]

August 17, 1911

17 Aug 1911

Charley Hammond Serious Head Wound

Charley Hammond, of Antietam, and who is employed at the Bakerton lime quarries, was struck on the head with a falling stone, making a very wound and quite a loss of blood. Dr. E. M. Garrott […]

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