The Funeral Procession and Burial of James Buchanan, 15th President

This is the second part of the blog I started in honor of Pennsylvania’s only President.  This will cover the funeral procession to Woodward Hill Cemetery and his burial.  Part one covered his death and services in his home, Wheatland, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Although James Buchanan had expressly requested no “pomp or parade,” it happened [...]

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Linda’s Headstone of the Week; Week #19

  This cemetery has to have some of the most beautiful monuments and headstones that I have ever seen!  This one caught my eye from the car and I practically ran to see it!  It is probably one of the most beautifully carved ones I have ever seen.  Check out the folds in the girl’s skirt [...]

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The Death of James Buchanan, Bachelor President

Since today is Presidents’ Day, I decided to take this opportunity to do a blog on Lancaster, Pennsylvania’s own President.  This will be the first in a series of blogs on the subject of James Buchanan, his death, his funeral, his burial and his gravesite.  I will try to post the first blog this week [...]

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Linda’s Headstone of the Week; Week #18

  I have chosen this as my headstone of the week because I have absolutely no idea who he is!  I believe he is buried in England because of the inscription which reads: IN LOVING MEMORY OF My Dearly Beloved Husband PERCY AUGUSTUS PELLOWE Late (undecipherable) of H.M.S. Goliath who passed away 17 Sept 1915 [...]

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The Monument that isn’t . . .

Lititz, Pennsylvania is a small, historical town north of Lancaster.  It’s history is rooted in the Lancaster as a town founded, settled and exclusively a Moravian town.  To live in Lititz you had to belong to the Moravian Church up until the mid 1800′s.   Visits to the quaint shops, spring fed park and historical [...]

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Prospect Hill Cemetery and Their Flags

I live in Lancaster County, but I cross the Susquehanna River occasionally to visit ancestors in York County.  I start in York City, work my way west to Chambersburg, up to Shippensburg and continue in a circle back across the river into Harrisburg and wind my way home either down thru the river towns or [...]

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Linda’s Headstone of the Week; Week #17

This headstone reads: IN MEMORY OF JOHN BROWN SERGEANT COMP. C 184TH PA VOLUNTEERS MAY 12 1864 SON OF JOHN AND CATHERINE BROWN —– HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY HIS GRAVE IS UNKNOWN HIS RECORD IS WITH GOD   This week’s “Headstone of the Week” is in the St. John’s Lutheran Cemetery in [...]

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My Book Finds in New York City

This week we celebrated our 30th Anniversary and spent a good portion of the week in New York City.  It was frigid, to say the least, and we spent most of our time doing indoor things ~ tours, eating, shopping and gawking.  We took bus tours, ate, watched the taping of the Letterman Show, ate, [...]

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Linda’s Headstone of the Week; Week #16

. . .  or a better title would be “Why You Shouldn’t Believe Everything on Headstones.” This headstone was found in Oakhill Cemetery, Mt. Vernon, Kentucky.  Charles Jackson Bowman was the father of William Henry Bowman and died from tuberulosis in 1911.  According to the 1910 census and his veterans file he was married to [...]

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