Carlisle

Chas. H. Simms

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.

Nhan Ai Simms

Image of Nhan Ai Simms during Interview

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.

Lester Sipe

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.

Charles Slaughter

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.

Sleighing

4 individuals seated in a horse drawn sleigh

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.

Dorothy M. Slothower

Interview of Dorothy M.Slothower for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library Memory Bank. Slothower discusses growing up in Cumberland County and the former Carlisle Indian School student Jacob Jackson who worked and lived on her family's farm.

Henry Smallwood

a. Veteran’s Register Carlisle pp. 34-40 Union Colored Cemetery Carlisle Section B, Grave 61

Army Infantry Co. H, 25th Regt. 1/29/1864 to 12/6/1865

b. Bates, Vol. V, p. 1042

c. PA State Archive Muster Roll 25th, Co. H, Folder 1, #62 on roll  (name “William” H.)

d. Evening Sentinel, Roll 1-45, Obituary 7/13/1907

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