Articles
Genealogical and historical data taken from local newspapers and from our biannual newsletter and listed here for your personal research and reading pleasure.
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The Veterans. The first reunion of Wyoming county veterans was held at Lake Carey, Tuesday and Wednesday of last week. The preliminaries were arranged on Decoration Day, circulars were issued and every effort made to bring the soldiers together. All things considered, the reunion was a splendid success; one hundred and ten answered to roll-call…
A description of a party with the names of attendees in New York City in 1931 where many people from Tunkhannock reunited.
An anxious father’s ruse to prevent the downfall of his daughter. A fun newspaper article from 1891.
July 1896 HACKED TO DEATH. Benj. Carter Murdered in Cold Blood at Skinner’s Eddy. THE MURDERER ARRESTED “JUMBO,” A FRENCHMAN, DID THE AWFUL DEED WITH A POCKET KNIFE—THE BODY FRIGHTFULLY GASHED—SUMMARY JUSTICE IN WYOMING COUNTY. A great deal of excitement was occasioned in the quiet little village of Skinner’s Eddy, in Wyoming county, late on…
~Originally published in Lest-We-Forget Wyoming County Pioneers, Vol. 11 No. 1 (15 September 1991) p18 The following interesting article, written by a person who chooses to employ the pseudonym “An Old Resident”, is furnished this newspaper at a most appropriate time, for the breaking of ground in the “Irish Settlement” was coincidental with the setting off…
An article from The Scranton Tribune. (Scranton, Pa.), 27 May 1902, p3 KNIGHTS TEMPLAR OF STATE THRONG CITY Every Train Arriving in the City During the Day Brought Large Delegations Three thousand strangers are within the city’s gates in attendance upon the forty-ninth annual conclave of the grand commandery, Knights Templar of Pennsylvania. They came yesterday…
From the Tunkhannock Republican & New Age Newspaper Articles are unchanged from the original; writers are acknowledged when found. Extracted by Regina Evans Incidents of the War Issue of: 24 Dec 1914 Interest in the operations of the Great War in Europe has lost some of its keenness of late in view of the seeming…
Index of Wyoming County, Pennsylvania Wills from 1842 to 1932 ~ Vol. 1 – 16 (1842 – 1932) ~ These are estate records from the courthouse now on microfilm. The name is followed by the year of the estate settlement and the microfilm file number. Use these to view the film at the society. [NOTE: Not all wills were filmed, as some were…
The following one-room schools [in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania] have been closed. The date after the name of the school indicates the year the one-room school was closed. Braintrim Twp.: Lacey Street, 1919; Doolittle Hill, 1922; Black Walnut, 1943 Clinton Twp.: Carpenter Hollow, 1945; Bunker Hill, 1945; Tunnell Hill, 1946; Glenn, 1946 Eaton Twp.: North Eaton,…