William Thomas McKnight, Jr.
He was known as Bill, as “Mac” by his buddies, and he was known at West Philadelphia High School for being voted “best looking” in the Class of 1937. He…
Read MoreCharles Mangione, Jr.
When the U.S. Census was taken in 1910, Charles’ mother was 23 years old with five children under the age of 7, with Charles Jr. being the middle child. Her…
Read MoreLawrence Cooper Law, Jr.
At the dawn of the 20th Century, the Law family was living in Philadelphia and there were two daughters and a son. A few years later Lawrence Senior moved the…
Read MoreRobert L. Kennedy
Robert was born just to the west of Philadelphia in Delaware County on March 23, 1933. His mother was 19 at the time, and his father was 23, a drill…
Read MoreThomas H. Hunsworth
The Hunsworth family included three boys and three girls when the 1860 census was taken. Father John was a partner in the Hunsworth & Naylor Iron Foundry, also known as…
Read MoreGeorge Raymond Gosner
There is more personal information available for George’s family than there is for him, and that’s not very much. He was born on June 24, 1898 in Philadelphia to William…
Read MoreJohn Forbes
John grew up just a few blocks south of Mount Moriah, within walking distance of Penrose Elementary School. In June, 1942, when he was 18, he registered for the draft,…
Read MoreGeorge Daniel Ferrell
The Ferrells were residents of the Point Breeze section of South Philadelphia when George was born in 1911. They had just one other child, a daughter, three years later. The…
Read MoreJames Fee
This soldier is memorialized on his family gravestone although he was actually buried in a military cemetery in France. James was the fifth of six children born to Irish immigrants,…
Read MoreJohn Daniel Duckworth
John was born in Connellsville Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, but grew up just south of here in Elmwood Park. He walked to John Bartram High School (shown here as a student)…
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