Sylvester T. Bunting
Men born close to the sea are often seamen, at least in their souls. Sylvester was more so than his brothers Solomon and Samuel, and his father, George. They were all…
Read MoreRobert Paschall
His was the oldest family in West Philadelphia, according to a newspaper account of the late 1800s. An ancestor received a grant from England’s King Charles II in the late…
Read MoreOrville Jackson Moat
Boy Scout Troop #503 from Springfield, Delaware County, came to Mount Moriah Cemetery for their service project in 2016 and uncovered the grave of a Civil War veteran. What made…
Read MoreJames Forten Dunbar
Jim was the youngest child born to a free man of color named William Dunbar who died when Jim was about six years old. Jim’s mother was Abigail Forten Dunbar,…
Read MoreDavid W. Andrews
Researching lives from the past can be like fitting pieces of a puzzle together, but drawing conclusions must be based on confirmed evidence. Speculation has its place as long as…
Read MoreFrederick Sorber
The father of this family named his middle son Fred, after himself, but gave him a middle initial that has been difficult to identify. The handwritten capital letters “I” and…
Read MoreMatthew Moore
When Matthew Moore’s family sailed from Ireland to raise a family in America, he was nearly 20 years old. Shortly after settling in Philadelphia in the early 1840s, his mother…
Read MoreJohn Augustus Dougherty
John grew up in Reading, Pennsylvania with a brother, two sisters, and a widowed mother who remarried when John was about six years old. They moved the family to Philadelphia…
Read MoreJohn Calvin Rutherford
John’s family background is a mystery but his life is a notable one because of his sacrifice in a time of war as a soldier and his work in keeping…
Read MoreAlexander Johnston
Upwards of a million people fled to America from Ireland because of the famine that decimated their country between 1845 and 1852. Thousands of the unskilled men who spoke with…
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