Harrison was a boatman, canalman, pre-war, enlisted in the 50th PA Infantry at the age of 16 to fight with others from Schuylkill County, PA. He was wounded at Spotsylvania, heard Lincoln's Gettsburg address, came through all the years of the war alive to marry Sarah Bretz and raise many children in Tamaqua, PA. We do not know exactly how many, records being fuzzy but we understand it was a happy household. Sarah we think died at 53, leaving some of the children young, Harry slowly giving way to both blindness and the war wound. He'd worked in the canals until they went out, then as a fireman and brakeman for the railroad. In and out of the Vet's Hospitals, he died at his daughter's home in Wilkes Barre, PA, Eva Walton Orf. We only have one photo, wish there were more. Somewhere is his Civil War photo, heard a report of that. It's Harrison in his uniform, in a large, oval frame. We'd SO love to see a copy, honor our grgrgrandfather.
It's taken me almost 2 decades to track down where Harrison was buried, more to see his grave was, thanks to Find a Grave and the photo volunteer Lynne. It means the world, as some of these things do, to finally have him back in the family at least in this small way.
My grgrandmother wrote of him as 'Harry '.
No, not famous but is to us, VERY famous.
It's taken me almost 2 decades to track down where Harrison was buried, more to see his grave was, thanks to Find a Grave and the photo volunteer Lynne. It means the world, as some of these things do, to finally have him back in the family at least in this small way.
My grgrandmother wrote of him as 'Harry '.
No, not famous but is to us, VERY famous.
Harrison was a boatman, canalman, pre-war, enlisted in the 50th PA Infantry at the age of 16 to fight with others from Schuylkill County, PA. He was wounded at Spotsylvania, heard Lincoln's Gettsburg address, came through all the years of the war alive to marry Sarah Bretz and raise many children in Tamaqua, PA. We do not know exactly how many, records being fuzzy but we understand it was a happy household. Sarah we think died at 53, leaving some of the children young, Harry slowly giving way to both blindness and the war wound. He'd worked in the canals until they went out, then as a fireman and brakeman for the railroad. In and out of the Vet's Hospitals, he died at his daughter's home in Wilkes Barre, PA, Eva Walton Orf. We only have one photo, wish there were more. Somewhere is his Civil War photo, heard a report of that. It's Harrison in his uniform, in a large, oval frame. We'd SO love to see a copy, honor our grgrgrandfather.
It's taken me almost 2 decades to track down where Harrison was buried, more to see his grave was, thanks to Find a Grave and the photo volunteer Lynne. It means the world, as some of these things do, to finally have him back in the family at least in this small way.
My grgrandmother wrote of him as 'Harry '.
No, not famous but is to us, VERY famous.
It's taken me almost 2 decades to track down where Harrison was buried, more to see his grave was, thanks to Find a Grave and the photo volunteer Lynne. It means the world, as some of these things do, to finally have him back in the family at least in this small way.
My grgrandmother wrote of him as 'Harry '.
No, not famous but is to us, VERY famous.
