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Mildred B. Burkholder Hamsher

The Evening News, Harrisburg, PA, November 05, 1991, page B2

Mildred B. Hamsher, 92, of Gettysburg Lutheran Retirement Village, formerly of Harrisburg, died yesterday in the village. She was a former science teacher in Harrisburg schools; a 1922 graduate of Dickinson College; and a member of Christ Lutheran Church, Gettysburg; its Lutheran Church Women; Gettysburg Senior Citizens; and the Adams County Historical Society.

She was the widow of the Rev. Dr. Mervin Roy Hamsher. Surviving are two stepsons, Carl of Upper Darby and the Rev. Paul O. of Williamsburg, Va.; a brother, Albert Burkholder of Middletown; two stepgrandchildren; and one step-great-granddaughter. Services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Gettysburg Lutheran Retirement Village chapel, 1095 Old Harrisburg Road. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Visitation will be from 1 to 2 p.m. tomorrow at the chapel. Arrangements are being handled by Monahan Funeral Home. -- contributed by Nancy Harvey via Sara Hemp

Info on husband, Mervin "Roy" Roy Hamsher, Reverend

• born: October 03, 1882 Fayetteville, Franklin County, Pennsylvania
• died: February 24, 1976 Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania
• parents: Oliver Cromwell Hamsher & Clara Anna Adesma Hoffman
• Roy received a Common School Diploma from the Woodstock School in Franklin Co., Pa. in 1898. He graduated from Chambersburg Academy in 1901; Gettysburg College in 1904 with the degree of A.B.; and from the Theological Seminary at Gettysburg in 1908 with the degree of B.D. The first six years of his ministry were spent in the Pittsburgh Synod. From June 1st, 1910 to November 1st, 1913 he served the Home Mission field of St. James' Lutheran Church on the South Side Hills, Pittsburgh. He was also with the Emanuel Lutheran congregation in West Etna, Pa. until September 1st, 1914. Beginning September 1st, 1914 Roy served as pastor of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church, York, Pa., for a period of seven years. It was during this period that his wife, Eleanor died of influenza {Wife, Eleanor Werts Miller died during an influenza epidemic in 1920 in York, PA}. Roy later remarried Mildred Burkholder. From September 1st, 1921 to September 1st, 1923 Roy was pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, Reistertown, Maryland. He then became the pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Mechanicsburg, Pa. on September 1st, 1923. He eventually returned to Gettysburg after living in Mechanicsburg, Pa. for several years. He is now buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania.

John Andre Hanna

The Centinel, Gettysburg, PA
August 14 1805

Died in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday last, in the 44th year of his age, General John Andre Hanna, for many years a respectable inhabitant of that borough - and on the following day his remains were accompanied to the grave, by perhaps the largest concourse of people ever witnessed in that place on a similar occasion.

General Hanna has been, for several years, a representative of this state in the congress of the United States; in which capacity an unremitting attention to the interests of his country, and a firm attachment to the principals of the revolution were honorably recognized by his constituents, in his repeated re-elections to the same important post.

But in private life, the character of General Hanna presents still more amiable and interesting pictures; generous, charitable and humane, possessing by nature a benevolent heart; refined an enlarged by the polishing hand of education and an extensive intercourse with mankind. In his family, an affectionate husband, a tender and indulgent parent; in his neighborhood, kind and obliging.

Mrs. John W. Hart

Adams County News (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
January 24, 1914

The body of Mrs. John W. Hart of Highspire, will be brought Sunday on the morning train from Harrisburg and buried in Bendersville cemetery, Rev. Luther McGarvey, of York Springs officiating.  Friends will accept this as notice.  Brief services will be held at the grave.  Mrs. Hart was 73 years of age.

Gettysburg Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
January 31, 1914

Mrs. John Hart of Highspire, died last week aged about 73 years. The body was taken to Benderville where interment was made on Sunday.  Rev. Luther McGarvey of York Springs conducting services.

Frank Hersh

Taken From the Gettysburg Compiler, Gettysburg, PA
March 27, 1920

Frank Hersh, aged 59 years, clerk at the Eagle Hotel, Gettysburg, since 1917, died last Wednesday at the hotel after several days confinement to bed from the affects of Bright's disease.  Mr. Hersh, after clerking at all the prominent Harrisburg hotels during the past 30 years, came to Gettysburg in 1917 with Clement when he took charge of the Eagle Hotel and resided there almost continuously  since that time. He was a native of Hummelstown and maintained a residence there where his wife, his only immediate relative now lives.

Mrs. John Hoerner

Taken From The Bradford Era (Bradford, Pennsylvania)
August 8, 1952

Mrs. John Hoerner, 20, of nearby Hummelstown died of polio in Harrisburg Hospital today, the second victim of the disease at that hospital  this week.  Gideon Peachley, 16 of Belleville, died at that hospital Sunday.

Mr. Huntsberger

Taken From the Indiana Gazette, Indiana PA
November 29 1905

Harrisburg,Pa., Nov. 24
One man was killed and five others were more or less seriously injured in a railroad wreck at Thompsontown, 36 miles west of this city, this morning.  A mail train was in collision with a freight.  The dead man is Brakeman Huntsberger of Harrisburg.