Leonard F. Shaner Jr.
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- Jun 13, 2015
I do historical research for people who are wanting to place a building, village, farm, church and the list go on. I have helped place Four areas already as National Register of Historic Places. I also do historical research for people who are writing books and manuscripts of some sort. Not all done through the internet. Sometimes it lintels that. I research properties by going to the county seat and research through deeds by using the Tax number of the properties. There's only so much you can read from microfilm, you have to read the information from the deed books too. I have traveled to Harrisburg to look through the Pennsylvania state deed books. I one time found through a deed book from the 1700's some really neat information about this one person's property, that it was once owned by Ben Franklin. That was near Coventryville, PA.
I'm also a local historian, I love our local history, it's surprising what you can learn.
Here's an article I wrote for Memorial Day.
"Ellis Woods Revolutionary War Cemetery 1777-78"
Ellis Woods Revolutionary War Cemetery 1777-78 in East Coventry Township on Ellis Woods Road.
It is believed that over 150 Revolutionary War soldiers are buried in this area, although only 17 are marked. The farm located next door was used as the hospital as Washington's men came back from the battle of the Brandy wine.
A quote from the late Estelle Cremers " those who were exhausted and died with all of this marching around in the mud and rain and remnants of the Battle of Brandy wine."
A quote from the late S. Harvey Kulp, Jr. " Washington needed the makeshift hospitals when he arrived in the area Sept. 16, 1777, following the Continental Army’s defeat at the Battle of Brandy wine Creek almost a week earlier."
In a 1803 Reading Eagle, it reads " all the rain they didn't get all summer came down. The soldiers, poorly clothed and without tents, became ill with pneumonia and other diseases.
But war waits for no one, and the army of 11,000 men soon headed east, intending to cross the Schuylkill at Edward Parker's ford. They trudged along roads that were little more than cow paths or dirt lanes, but now are Pigeon Creek Road , Elli Woods and others."
In 1882 Reading Eagle, mentions the formation of a "Decoration Association" to "attend to the graves" of patriot soldiers buried in woods belonging to John Ellis. The first man to lay to rest was Sargent Robert Ellis a nephew to John .
In a 1910 Reading Eagle, it reads "Washington crossed the Schuylkill in September of 1777, and that Gen. George Washington got his britches wet and had to dry them in Linfield, at the Evans house, the house still stands.
There's a small bronze plaque affixed to a rock inside the cemetery. It reads "these were some of the men who made the supreme. sacrifice in defense of a principle then new to the world: that all men are created equal, and that all have an inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Of course I know you will pick this apart. But you ask the question, I'm only answering it. There is other information that goes along with this, but that information isn't to be told out because that's between me and the IRS. Unless you want to reveal your tax information.
