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January 12, 2025

Bratt, Death from Cancer

Death from Cancer.[Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.] EASTON, Md., Jan. 6.– Mrs. Mary A. Bratt, wife of Samuel Bratt, of Oxford, Talbot county, died at her residence there this morning. Her father was the late […]
August 13, 2024

Reunion Companies D & A, 12th Va. Cavalry

Reunion Companies D and A, 12th Va. Cavalry.Companies D and A, 12th Va. Cavalry, met in reunion at Uvilla, W. Va., August 11th; at the roll call the following members of Company D answered to their […]
May 2, 2024

Smith, Ex-Soldier Engineer Killed

Ex-Soldier Engineer Killed in Crash.Special to The Washington Post.Hagerstown, Md., May 7.– William M. Smith, locomotive engineer at the Bakerton quarries, near Williamsport, Md., misinterpreting a signal, ran his engine into an open switch and was […]
May 2, 2024

Smith, Killed At Quarries Shortly After Release From German Prison

GOT BY FOE PRISON, KILLED IN ACCIDENT.HAGERSTOWN, Md., May 9. — William M. Smith, recently returned from Germany, where he had been held a prisoner for two years, met an instant death in an accident at […]
May 2, 2024

Smith, Killed By Train In Quarry

Killed by Train in QuarriesSpecial to The Washington Post. Harpers Ferry, W. Va., May 5– William Smith, of Samples Manor, Maryland, was killed today at the quarries in Bakerton. While running a dinky engine in the […]
May 2, 2024

Dinner Party in Honor of Marriage of Miller & Hetzel

Miss Frances Magruder will entertain at a supper party this evening at her home on old Georgetown road, at Alta Vista, Md., in honor of Miss Ray Miller, whose marriage to Mr. Lowell H. Hetzel, of […]
May 2, 2024

Marriage: Ray Miller wed to Lowell H. Hetzel

The Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church South was the scene of a very pretty wedding last evening when Miss Ray Miller, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David N. Miller of Alta Vista, Md., was […]
December 21, 2023

Obituary: Walter Manuel

Walter Alexandria Manuel, born in Bakerton, W. Va. on March 28, 1919, and the son of the late Walter and Elsie Welch Manuel, died Feb. 3, in Newton D. Baker Hospital, where he had been a […]
December 21, 2023

Obituary: Mrs. Madge E. Moler

Mrs. Madge E. MolerMrs. Madge Elizabeth Moler, 73, died Friday, March 7, at the Charles Town General Hospital, Charles Town, W. Va. Born in Pleasantsville, she was the daughter of the late Charles W. and Florence […]
December 10, 2023

The Friday Murder Mystery

THE HEARING AT HAGERSTOWN– DETAILS OF THE CRIME, ETC.[Reported for the Baltimore Sun.] HAGERSTOWN, MD., June 27, 1877.– James Gardner and J. W. Grove, who are in the county jail at this place on suspicion of […]
December 3, 2023

An Honorable Roll (Company F, First VA Cavalry)

An Honorable Roll. Robert L. Billmyer, of this vicinity, has handed us the following list of the surviving members of Company F, First Virginia Cavalry, commanded by the late Captain M. J. Billmyer, and we print […]
August 18, 2023

Marriage License Issued: Kaldenback, Homer.

Marriage Licenses. Floyd C. Payne and Minnie C. Gaynor. John H. Hankins and Ellen R. Robinson.James L. Talbert and Grace Johnson.Arthur W. Cunitz and Marie J. Courreges.Murvin P. Counselman, of Bethesda, Md., and Catherine Mulkerne.Benjamin W. […]
August 18, 2023

Kaldenback – Transfers of Real Estate

Transfers of Real Estate. Deeds in fee have been filed as follows: M. S. Hopkins to Mary A. Ferry, pt. 10, sq. 369; $–. S. Ross to J. L. Poston, lot 11, sq. 640; $1,500. John […]
July 28, 2023

Conversation with Capt. Brown.

Several of the Reporters who visited Harper’s Ferry last week availed themselves of an opportunity to be present at an interview which Mr. Senator Mason, of Virginia, and the Hon. Mr. Faulkner, also of Virginia, and […]
July 18, 2023

Geo. W. Smith, dead at Weston

Mr. Geo. W. Smith, an aged man from Bolivar, who was taken to the Insane Asylum at Weston less than a month ago, has since died in that institution.
December 4, 2020

Higgins, Memories of John Brown & The Raiders

A Veteran Railroad Man’s Memories of John Brown and the Raiders of 1859 HARPER’S FERRY, W. VA., Dec. 26.NEXT Tuesday will mark the anniversary of the execution of John Brown and his band of raiders at […]
May 20, 2020

Catons Summering with Biggs.

Mrs. Frost, Miss Frost, Mrs. Caton and the Misses Caton, and Mrs. Smith, of Washington D. C. are summering with Mr. Wm. N. Biggs
April 1, 2019

West Virginia & It’s People – Flanagan

FLANAGAN — Among the industrious Irish-American citizens now residing in West Virginia may be named the Flanagan family, which was first represented in America in 1798 in the person of William Flanagan, who became the grandfather […]