Charles Neal Gault
From major league ball player to teacher, athletic director, and coach, young Charles never could have imagined a long career in sports when he was first entering the world of…
Read MoreWalter Ernest Lambs
As a wounded soldier, Walter was eligible to posthumously receive the Purple Heart after the recognition program was launched in 1932. Unfortunately it required that an application be submitted by…
Read MoreEmma Loretta Murphy
The story of Emma’s life includes not only her trailblazing career choice but the close ties she maintained throughout her life with her family and her church in Philadelphia. And…
Read MoreGraham McConnell
The McConnell clan from Ireland was well represented in Philadelphia in the last years of the 19th century. The city directory listed 200 employed men with that name, although that…
Read MoreJohn Oliver Guthrie
The Guthries were from western Illinois but John’s father, Fred, pursued post-graduate work at Rush Medical College in Chicago and became a physician. Unfortunately the patients shared their diseases with the…
Read MoreGeorge Harold Floyd
The Floyd family came to Philadelphia in 1905 from Shamokin, a mill and mining town in east central Pennsylvania. George was the only child of Elizabeth and her husband William,…
Read MoreMargaret Elizabeth Paul
Both of Margaret’s parents were born in Ireland, both of their families arrived in the mid-1880s, and Robert and Elizabeth (“Lizzie”) were married in Philadelphia in 1894. They settled in…
Read MoreWilliam Frederick Hough, Sr.
William’s surname rhymes with “rough.” But even though he was a young boy when his father died, he served overseas in World War I, and he died at age 53,…
Read MoreVeronica Jane Geris Curran
Jane B. Geris was her given name according to the 1900 and 1910 census reports, but she used Veronica Jane as an adult. Her mother, Rose Campbell of Illinois, married…
Read MoreFrederick Stanford Elkington
This burial is one of two in this Naval cemetery for military personnel who were not in the American Armed Forces. Frederick was born in Suffolk, England, northeast of London,…
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