Judge Dale F. Shughart was born on July 21, 1913 in South Middleton Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Boiling Springs High School before earning a degree from Dickinson College.
Interview of Mary Ann Shughart by Carolyn Osborn for the Cumberland County Historical Society. Shughart discusses her life including her experiences during World War II while her husband, Dale F. Shughart, was serving in the military.
Silver spoons and tableware were considered valuable assets in 1780. Spoons and a few other pieces of tableware such as “Mustard Potts” represent entries among a handful of the county’s residents. They are not found in the earliest county tax lists.
Charles (Chas) H. Smith, was born in 1837 in Pennsylvania. While little is known about his early life, records have indicated that he was raised by his father Harry Simms. Simms enlisted in Company G of the 6th Regiment of the United States Colored Troops on July 29th, 1863, and served until August 20th, 1865. Simms moved to Carlise, where he married an unknown woman, who died in 1866. Simms would get married two more times, to Mary Simms until her death in 1900, then to Elizebeth Jackson. Simms had one child, Emma.
Interview of Nhan Ai Simms by Amanda Gautier and Megan Osborn on November 1, 2015 for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library. The interview focuses on the Simms family and experiences in Carlisle and Cumberland County after Vietnam.
In 1899, Chinaman Sing Gee, planning to make a trip to China, sold his laundry business at 120 West High Street to Lewie Sing for $160. Lewie paid Sing Gee $100 and agreed to pay him the balance when he returned from China.
Mr. Raphael Hays,
I read the book that you published for the 250th Anniversary of Cumberland County about your grandfather and from what I read, he did the town of Carlisle a lot of good in the positions that he had as a soldier, lawyer and businessman. I used to work at your plant but I never knew the background of the man that owned it.
According to the "U.S. Find A Grave Index, 1600s to Current for Charles Slaughter", Charles Slaughter was born around 1841 in Fauquier County, Virginia.1 He was the son of Philip Slaughter and Mary Slaughter; his census records do not state where his parents were born.2 Before 1880, there are no census records stating his activities or residences.
Two very heavy falls of snow within the last week have made glorious sleighing and found everybody in the humor to enjoy it. Everything in the shape of a sleigh has been put in requisition, and the jingle of the merry bells is an unceasing sound from ‘tosy morn to dewey eve,’ and then as the evenings are splendidly moonlit, the merriment only fairly commences.