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James P. McKenney, private, mustered in March 17th, '65; mustered out with company.
Albert Rolniny, private, mustered in March 17th, '65 ; mustered out with company,
William H. Rohrbach, private, mustered in March 17th, '65; mustered out with company.
Julius Ray, private, mustered in March 17th, '65; mustered out with company.
George A. Reeser, private, mustered in March 17th, '65; mustered out company.
PLATE XIV
STORE.
RES. OF J.A. CAKE.
BANKING HOUSE
RES. OF COL. J. W. CAKE.
PROPERTY OF COL. J. W. CAKE .FRONT STREET, SUNBURY, NORTH' ? Co., P.
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Laferins Renninger, private, mustered in March 29th, '65; mustered out with company.
Peter M. Sayder, private, mustered in March 28th, '65; mustered out with company.
John Wilver, private, mustered in March 23d, '65 ; mustered out with company.
John Zimmerman, private, mustered in March 17th, '65; mustered out with company.
The Regimental Band of the Forty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers belonged to Sunbury, and went out September 14th, '61. They were discharged by general order September 27th, '62, the Government having reduced the number of bands for the service. The band was made up as follows : Thomas D. Grant, Iender. Musicians, Edward M. Bucher, Samuel P. Bright, W. T. Blair, Jacob Feig, Charles D. Wharton, L. B. Howard, Jared C. Irwin, Jesse Metz, John C. Miller, Charles D. Sonvely, Henry Stulin, James R. Strickland, Samuel Van Buskirk, George W. Weaver, Philip Whitmore, Jacob Weiser, George W. Walls.
I have estimated the number of arms-bearing population in Sonbury and suburbs during the war at about eight hundred. Of these, at leust three hundred and twenty-five were in the volunteer service, many of them over four years. In addition, one hundred and sixty-eight were in the emergency service ; making in all four hundred and ninety-three men, or more than one-half of those who were ft for duty in the army. Sunbury furnished one brevet brigadier-general, three colonels, one major, seven captains, eight Ist lieutenants, eight 2d lientenants, and one adjutant.
The following is a list of the honored dead lying in our grave-yard. It is not complete, but is as correet ns I am able to get it at this time:
William Fry, company C, Forty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, died March 29th, '75.
Peter Haupt, company C, Forty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, died November 14th, '62.
Isone M. Wilkerson, died February 1st, '61.
Philip Renn, company B, Twelfth, wounded, died October 20th, '65.
Harris A. Hopper, company I, Fifty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, died March 22d, '68.
William Landau, died June 29th, '65.
Landis P. Starner, company C, One Hundred and Thirty-first Pennsyl- vania Volunteers, died December 13th, '63.
Isnae N. Sarvis, company C, One Hundred and Thirty-first Pennsylvania Volunteers, died Jannary 15th, '63
James Wilkerson.
Emanuel Gotshall, company I, Fifty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers.
George Miller, company C, Forty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, died '66.
Frederick Kline, company G, One Hundred and Eighty-eighth Pennsyl- vnain Volunteers, died June 30th, '64.
Mahlon Myers.
John B. Durst, company H, Seventh Pennsylvania cavalry, died Janu- ary 17th, '68.
Jeseph Crist, company I, Fifty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, died December, 69.
Samuel Crist, company I, Fifty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, died '73. Franklin Houser, died '73.
Freeman Haupt, company C, Forty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers.
J. Bolton Young, company C, Forty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, died October 17th, '61.
Peter Smelser, company C, Forty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, died July 8th, '73.
Jehu Shissler, company I, Eighty-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers.
Isane Leeser, company K, Que Hundred and Fifty-second Pennsylvania Volunteers, died '74.
Lieutenant Charles Israel Pleasants, Eleventh U. S. iufantry, killed in the Wilderness; never found, but n mouument erected here to his memory.
James Hoey, company I, Fifty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, died June 11th, '65.
Edward L. Beck, company C, One Hundred and Thirty-first Pennsylvania Volunteers, and company M, Seventy-fourth Pennsylvanin cavalry, died June 8th, '64.
Samuel Bateher, company I, Fifty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers.
David W. Druckemiller, compuny G, One Hundred and Eighty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers.
Lafayette Landan, company C, Forty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers.
Robert Brooks, Third Pennsylvania artillery.
Ulrich Eisele, (German.)
Dr. Jacob B. Masser was a surgeon in 1862, at the patent-office general hospital, in Washington City, having tendered his services to the government at the second battle of Bull Run. He was commissioned, and sworn into the United States service.
The following soldiers of the war of 1812, are also buried in our grave- yard, whose names I enter in this sketch: Peter Hileman, John Hileman, Christian Bower, Frederick Lazarus, Jacob Bright, John Coleher, Jacob Mar- tin, John Eisely, William M. Gray, Jacob Mantz, George Mantz, George A. . Prince, John Heddings, Captain McCurdy.
The historian gives place to the following extracts from Mr. Brice's oration, already alluded to, for the reason that, although they do not properly belong to the department of history, they are, nevertheless, so beautifully appropri- ate to the subject, and find an echo in so many hearts, that the citizens of Northumberland County will indulge n Inudable pride in having them pre- served in this permanent form. Said Mr. Brice:
"To keep alive the memories of these heroic men, we propose erecting a monument of granite, yonder, in the public park. Its foundation, sure and strong, has been laid in solid stone and cement, and in faith that the work will be fully completed. The committee, composed of John J. Smith, Major George B. Cadwallader, General J. K. Clement, E. Masser Bucher, Solomon Malick, Esq., Lieutenant L. H. Kase, L. M. Yoder, Lieutenant D. C. Dis- singer, Jared C. Irwin, Henry D. Wharton, H. F. Mann, P. H. Moore, and Lieutenant A. N. Brice, are anxiously waiting for the improvement of the times, that we may go forward. Rest assured, we mean to succeed in our project. The granite shaft will go up, and the monument stand as a reminder to those who come after ns, that brave men and true, from old Northumber- land County, fought and died in defense of the flag. Its voice will not be for war, but for peace.
" It is worthy of remark that the bitter feelings engendered by the war are rapidly passing away. It is only remembered among soldiers that we are all Americaas !- that, although we of the North fought under the stors and stripes, and they of the South under the stars nad bars --- while we sang the Star Spangled Banner, and they the Bonnie Blue Flag-we are one new in sentiment, bound together by common ties in a sisterhood of States. Living as we do, in a country grand iu its majestic rivers, forests, lakes; beautiful in scenery ; lofty in mountain grandeur ; magnificent in resources ; boundless in territory ; fertile in its soil ; plenteous iu its productions and energies ; with malice towards none,-here we have full opportunity to exercise that charity which suffereth long and is kind. While some of our large religions bedies, from whom better things were expected, are standing aloof upon mere technical differences; the seeular societies, hound by the mystic tie, have long since united in brotherly love; and the soldiers, forgetting the heat and storm of battle, are now strewing flowers upon the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers alike. The Union officers and soldiers, of the army of the Potomac, invite the officers and soldiers of the late Confederate army, of Northern Virginia, to participate with them in their annual re-union. The Confederates of the Western army, have tendered a similar invitation to those who fought for the Union, to join with them, in their anunal meeting, at Memphis, Tennessee.
" The war and all before it is now history. The geunine heroes of that war are respected hy each other for their bravery, no matter on which side of the line they fought. Reynolds, McPherson, Lyon, Sumner, Warren, Lander, Baker, Stouewall Jackson, Lee, Hill, Johnson, Zollicoffer, Cleburne, are all regarded as men of martial ability and courage. Brave men are always generous and magnanimous. We here reach out the hand and heart of friendship for all, whether of the blue or gray. If it be true that the war was an engine of Providence to carry out His purposes, why should men stand out in hostility ? True it is, that sentiment is outrunning states- manship, in binding up the bronches of the war. The time is here, when we ean and will all join hand in hand, as citizens of a common country, bap- tised in blood.
"As we thus take part in these beautiful ceremonies, let nis not forget the widow and the orphan. We have not outlived them. The armless sleeve and the crutch, are yet seen on our streets. Let these widows, and orphans, and men, not be forgotten. While no government in the world has made better provision for her pensioners than ours, there are other relations we bear to these wards of the Republic, that in solemn trust must not be denied. What we respectfully demand of the United States, is an equalized bounty bill. I believe that in justice this will yet come.
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Thoughtfully, let us move among the mounds of the dead. The humblest of these men were martyrs in the cause of their country. They sleep their last sleep. They are not moved by the trend of friend or foe. Their quiet is uudisturbed by our song and muffled strains of music. We will some day rest with them, and the country we served, side by side, will be left to our children and to strangers. In the language of the great Lincoln, as be stood by the dead on the field of Gettysburg :- " It is for us to be here dedicated to the grent task remhiniog before us, that from these honored dead we take an increased devotion to that cause, for which they gave their full devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have u new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
THE NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY SOLDIERS' MONUMENT ASSOCIATION
Was organized in the borough of Suubury, on the 25th of May, 1872, in pursunoce of a eall made on the 18th of May, 1872, signed by A. N. Brice, John J. Smith, Heber Painter, D. C. Dissinger, Charles J. Fox, S. H. Knowles, and J. E. Torrington. At the meeting of May 25th, 1872, an ex- eentive committee of fifteen was appointed, composed of A. N. Briee, P. H. Moore, Heber Painter, John Kay Clement, J. J. Smith, T. S. Shaunon, L. N. Yoder, S. H. Knowles, G. B. Cadwallader, D. C. Dissinger, H. G. Thatcher, Charles J. Fox, E. M. Bucher, H. F. Mann, and L. H. Kase. John J. Smith, was made President; Heber Painter, Secretary; P. H. Moore, Treasurer. August 6th, 1873, H. D. Wharton was elected a mem- , ber of the executive committee, in place of H. G. Thatcher, resigned. June 18th, 1873, Heber Painter resigned as Secretary, and A. N. Brice was elected in his place. On the 5th of August, 1873, the Common Pleas of Northumberland County granted a charter to the association. The site for the monnment having been marked out on Market square, on the 4th day of July, 1872, by Hon. Alexander Jordan and Hon. Simon Cameron. On the 30th of May, 1874, at the time of the decoration of the soldiers' graves with flowers, the corner-stone was laid with Masonic ceremonies. The foundation was laid in cement and stone during the Summer of 1873. The panic of 1873, having set in, the work of completing the monument has been retarded, hut the committee are hopeful that ere long, with the aid of subscriptions from our generous citizens, headed by Hon. Simon Cameron, Hon. J. B. Packer, Hon. A. Jordan, W. I. Greenough, Esq., S. P. Wolverton, Esq., Judge Rockefeller, W. L. Dewart, and others, the grand work will he com- pleted.
TURBUT TOWNSHIP.
About midway between the southern and the northern extremities of that narrow neck of Northumberland County which extends from the north brauch to the Lycoming line, lies the territory embraced in the present town- ship of Turbut. It is about five miles in extent, from west to enst, with an average width of little more than three miles, from north to south. Dela- ware and Lewis towoships form the northeru, and Chillisquaque the southern houndary line. Montour County joins it upon the east, while the right bank of the west branch is its western limit.
But when old Turbut township was first erected, by decree of the North- umberland County court, on the 19th of April, 1772, and so named in honor of Colonel Turbut Franeis, who had large grants in it for military services, it embraced five times its present area, and the following are the recorded boundaries: " Beginning on the east side of the Susquehanna ut Fort Augusta ; thence up the easterly side of the north branch, to the old line, formerly run for a division between Berks and Northampton Counties; hence by the same line, north-east to the top of Muncy Hills; thence along the top of the same, westerly to the west branch of the Susquehanna, and crossing the same to the west side, and down the same to the junction of the branches, and crossing the Susquehanna, to the place of beginning, so as to include the Forks and Island." From this territory have since been partitioned : Chillis- quaque township, in 1786; Delaware township, in 1843; and Lewis town- ship, in 1843.
In natural beauty and in material advantages, it differs but little from what is found throughout the entire range of' the west branch valley. There is the same winding river ; the same diversity of hill and vale and woodland; the same "waving fields and pastures green"-as fertile aud as favored'as any the sun ever shone upon-and the same evidences of thrift and prosperity
on every hand. Bubbling springs and clear streams are frequent, beautiful open groves and belts of thrifty timber are everywhere interspersed; while the handsome, substantial homes, the full barns and granaries, with "cattle upon a thousand hills," show how beautifully the generous limestone soil has rewarded the labor of the husbandman.
Its earliest history too, is similar to that of most of the settlements in the dark and bloody ground of the upper Susquehanna. It is the old romantic story of how stern resolute meo, in the more sterile settlements of the East, hearing of the marvellous fruitfulness of the Otzinachson valley, resolved to profit by its bounty and its promise, though they knew that the tomahawk. awaited them and their families, there-and how, through privation and watchings, captivity and torture, they toiled and fought aud suffered on, till they won for their chddren's children, the penee and plenty which are there to-day.
Let us not forget that there was a time, when neither plenty nor peace were there-that
" Havoc has been upon that peaceful plain, And blood hos dropped there, like the drops of rain ; And corn grows o'er lhe still graves of the slain."
Through these wilds, too, enme the good missionaries: Brainerd, Zeisberger, Bishop von Watteville and others of scarcely less note; carrying their lives in their hands, and braving every hardship, in the effort to save the red men's souls. And they were rewarded with some measures of success; many Indians were converted by their teachings, though, it must he said, there were not a few who afterwards proved recreant to their professions. The great Shickelemy was one of those who received baptism, and who remained firm. to the last. He died at Shamokin, in 1749, and of that event, Loskiel says: "He found comfort, pence, and joy, by faith in his Redeemer, aud the brethren considered him as a candidate for baptism. N * *
In this state of mind he was taken ill, was attended by Dr. David Zeisberger, und, in his presence, fell happy asleep in the Lord, in full assurance of obtain- ing eternal life through the merits of Jesus Christ."
But after the defent of General Braddock in 1755, the vindictiveness and treachery of the Indians increased to such an extent, that even the brave missionaries could stay among them no longer; so they quietly but mourofully touk their departure from the field of their labors, and left the Indian to his godlessness and cruelty.
And that it was only through the trials and virtues of the ancestors- their courage which never wavered; their labor which never ceased; their steadfastness and trust in God, which endured to the end-that we, their descendants, have come to this heritage.
Of the events occurring in the township territory prior to the year 1772, we have little more than a tradition. We know that the Shamokin war- path, passed directly through it-the Indian military road, if we may use the term-leading from the great central point of Shamokin to the upper lodges at Muney, Great Island and Sinnemahouing, and even through to the lake and to Ningara. That over this path, the Indian war parties came and went, reddening every mile of the way with blood and butchery ; of the chiefs who led these hordes, we know that nearly all were alike, cruel and treacherous ; all of them, at some time, professing friendship to the pale-faces; but only to lull and betray them ; sparing neither age nor sex, and laughing with savage glee at the bright scalp of the little child, hanging intertwined with the long hair of the mother, in the foul smoke of the wigwam. A few noble exceptions only proved this rule, and among the chief of these, were Andrew Montour, the Seneca, and Shickelemy, the Cayuga chief, who was justly called the white man's friend.
There is not, to-day, a living person who knows the name of the first white settler in Turbut, but nothing is more certain than that pioneers were there, very soon after 1750. They may have been, and they probably were, of that transitory class who are the foam which is pushed on in advance of the solid wave of immigration; but whatever they were, it is indeed a pity that their names, and their seniority of pioneership, are hidden in impenetrable ob- livion.
Two years after the township organization (in 1774), it contained two hun- dred and thirty-seven tax-payers, as follows:
Blair, J. Eason, John
Blue, F. Eason, Robert
Logue, H. Lemmerson, C.
Blue, William
Erwin, F.
Levy, E.
Biggar, J. Erwiu, A.
Erwin, John
Montgomery, John
Brandon, J. Fulerton, A.
Freeland, G.
Miller, J.
Bailey, S.
Batman, F. Fitzsimmons, W. McCallon, R.
Malone, R.
Bongert, M.
MeKnight, W.
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Black, J.
Farron, B.
Mc Williams, W.
Berry, G.
Fulton, B.
Murray, William
Bennet, G.
Freeland, A.
McCandles, R.
Buon, Hou Hans
Fulmore, J.
McFarling, R.
Foshem, E.
MeDrier, J.
Foutz, C.
Miller, J.
Fredrick, G.
MelIenry, I.
Field, G.
Martin, J.
Fisher, W.
MeWilliams, I. Mate
Bailey, William Bowman, Wm.
Frig, P.
McClanahon, J.
Colron, J.
Gillespy, William
Mc Williams, H.
Curry, John Carscadden, James
Gillilan, A.
Moody, R.
Clark, A.
Gibson, A.
Murry, Jaus
Curry, Robert
Gray, John
Murry, J.
Clark, John
Gaskin, T.
McCandles, G.
Conghran, J.
Gowdy, J.
McCluny, J.
Clark, A.
Gordon, S.
Mcclintock, J.
Calturt, M.
Gillespy, C.
MeKnight, Jawa
Carson, Joseph
George, William
McConnell, G.
Clark, James
Ginning, F.
Miller, I.
Camfort, J.
Gallaway, J.
Menger, R.
Chainny, John
Grant, A.
Mckee, G.
Clark, John
Galbraith, R.
Mehafty, J.
Crawford, James
Gray, John
Mds, J.
Carney, A.
Gilfillan, R.
Mend, D.
Coughran, John
Hains, R.
McMahan, Jouets
Camel, M.
Hamilton, G.
Marx, A.
Carson, D.
Hews, T.
Marshell, W.
Coughran, C.
Harrison, J.
McCully, P.
Cook, William
Hays, D.
McKin, W.
Caldwell, William
Hood, John
Martin, P.
Carr, A.
Hufman, H.
Martin, R.
Chambers, D.
Hullius, T.
McClaws, J.
Cunningham, M.
Hamersly, J.
Moore, J.
Cox, C.
Hemrod, S.
McCulloeb, J.
Calhoon, G.
Harrison, W.
Neilson, J.
Clark, William
Hays, James
Neel, T.
Chambers, J.
Hendershoot, M.
Onks, S.
Chainy, J.
Hatchenson, W.
Ogdon, J.
Crothers, John
Hembright, John
Piper, William
Chattin, John
Hunter, James
Plunket, William
Callender, C.
Hunter, T.
Parson, B.
Davis, R.
Horton, K.
Phillips, S.
Denney, John
Ireland, D.
Pedrick, R.
Dougherty, P.
Jury, O.
Physick, L.
Dougherty, H.
Jones, B.
Pollock, J.
Dixton, Johu
Johnston, William
Paterson, William
Durham, James
Johnson, H.
Paton, William
Davis, N.
Jurdon, T.
Purveyauce, S.
Donold, Jolın
Jones, P.
Rondles, R.
Davis, D.
Johnson, John
Robinson, J.
Dunlap, John
Jurdon, B.
Reed, E.
Dowdle, M.
Kerney, P.
Rickey, J.
Duncan, M.
Kirk, M.
Rees, M.
Davis, Wm.
Kelly, D.
Rendels, J.
Defance, John
Kennedy, D.
Russel, R.
Deen, John
King, R.
Reed, M.
Deen, A.
Kenersey, W.
Ross, William
Dougherty, John
Lytle, John
Sterret, B.
Espy, J,
Love, R
Simpson, A.
Espy, James
Leighton, W.
Stedden, T.
Erwiu, G.
Luckey, R.
Shaw, L.
Erwin, R.
Luckey, J.
Spear, S.
Engen, F.
Lench, J.
Spear, A.
Erison, John
Loge, J.
Semple, J.
Emmit, John
Lemmon, T.
Simson, J.
Emmons, A.
Lomax, C.
FREELAND'S SETTLEMENT AND FORT.
In 1772, the same year in which Marcus Hulings, Sr., opened his tavern at Limestone Run, (now in the borough of Milton,) there came from Essex County, New Jersey, two families, whose names were to he prominently identified with the history of the County and of Turbut township-the family of Vincent, and that of Jacob Freeland.
The Vincents, Cornelius, John and Peter, chose a point on the river, a mile or so from the mouth of Warrior Run, and about three miles above Milton, but Jucob Freeland located some distance up from the river, near where Warrior Run Church now stands.
Being a man of much foresight, he had brought along with bim, all the way over the tedions route from Jersey, the necessary iron work and gearings,
for the building of a mill, for the knew it was a prime necessity, in a new settlement. In the succeeding winter, he cut his timber, and early in the Spring of 1773, he commenced the work, and pushed it vigorously through to completion. It had the inevitable effect of bringing, prosperity to the settlement and to its founder; and during the nine years which intervened before the building of the first mill upon Limestone Run"(now Milton), the latter place was much inferior in importance to Freeland's settlement. New immigrants enme in, mostly from New Jersey, and among them in 1773, were Samuel Gould and his family, and Timothy Williams with a dozen children.
Freeland's mills* being now in prosperous operation, he justly regarding himself, in a manner, as the father and guardian of the settlement, hethought himself of a means of defense, in case of attack by the merciless and treach- erous envage.
He resolved to build a stockade, sufficiently capacious to afford an asylum for the surrounding settlers from any sudden irruption of the Indians. It was a work of much labor, in the cutting, hauling, and planting of the logs, but in the Summer of 1775-while the fusillades were rattling along the declivities of Bunker Hill-it was completed. Nor was it finished much too soon !
It mounted no artillery, aud had few of the appliances of scientific forti- fication; but it was pierced with Inop-holes for musketry, and its friendly logs saved many a head from the scalping-knife, in the four years which preceded its final capture.
Freeland also enclosed a half-acre of ground around the fort. This en- closure was surrounded by a picket, far less strong than the main stockade, but it afterwards did excellent service to the families of many of those who bad fled from their homes at the time of the great runaway.
Upon one occasion, in the latter part of the year 1778, a small party bad left Freeland's fort for Northumberland town. There were six or eight men on foot, and with them were two women on horseback-Mrs. Durham and Mrs. McNight-each has an infant in her arms as she rode.
When they had reached a hollow not far from the Vincent settlement, the crack of the rifles of the savages told them too late that they had fallen into an ambuscade. The horse of Mrs. MeNight became unmanageable, wheeled, and made for the fort. Her child was thrown from her arms, but she caught it by the foot, and so carried it, swinging by the side of her galloping horse, until mother and child were safe and sound within the shelter of the stockade.
Such were the frontier women of those days! Poor Mrs. Durham was less fortunate; her child was killed in her arms, and she herself thrown from the horse. An Indian tore the scalp from her hend and left ber, apparently lifeless. Two men named Williams and Guffy, f soon passed where she Iny, and they were amazed to see her partially rise and beg for water; she had been scalped, but was otherwise uninjured. She recovered and lived many years.
Some seven or eight years before, during an attack by Indians on the house of' John Tate, near Northumberland, a girl named Catharine Storni, was similarly scalped. She, too, recovered and lived to an old age. Those were strange experiences; few, very few, have ever lost their scalp and yet lived to tell the tale!
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