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First JEB Stuart strikes; then a triple murder near Round Top: Part 1
This seemingly bucolic illustration from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper for July 14, 1886, shows the modest, somewhat ramshackle homestead of George and Mary (Bell) Squibb in Warrington Township...
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First JEB Stuart strikes; then a triple murder near Round Top: Part 2
To read part one of this true crime story, click here. George and Mary Squibb had worshiped at the Warrington Meeting House (shown above in this Scott Mingus photograph) near Wellsville, Pennsylvania,...
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First JEB Stuart strikes; then a triple murder near Round Top: Part 3
For parts 1 and 2 of this true crime story, click here and here. On the morning of Monday, June 18, 1866, George Snelbaker needed an auger for some chores. The 24-year-old man lived near his namesake...
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First JEB Stuart strikes; then a triple murder near Round Top: Part 4
The weathered gravestone of Mary (Bell) and George S. Squibb is shown in this photograph courtesy of York Countian Jeremy Easton. It is in the southwestern section of the cemetery of the Warrington...
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First JEB Stuart strikes; then a triple murder near Round Top: Part 5
Sarah Emma Seifert, Mary (Bell) Squibb, and George Squibb lie side by side in the cemetery of Warrington Friends Meeting House. They are known in local history as “The Murdered Family.” But who killed...
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First JEB Stuart strikes; then a triple murder near Round Top: Finale
The 1860 Census of Warrington Township shows Quaker farmer George Squibb, his wife Mary, one of their daughters (Maria Jane) and their granddaughters Sarah Seifert and Mary Jane Myers (the daughters of...
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York County History Center To Release Underground Railroad Book: The Ground...
On September 1, 2016, the York County History Center will release the first book on the Underground Railroad ever to be published in York. Surprising, considering that from the 1820s through the early...
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York County saw several small Civil War skirmishes
Rossville, in northwestern York County, saw a small skormish in its streets when Union cavalry briefly clashed with J.E.B. Stuart’s rear guard on July 1, 1863, the same day as the opening of the Battle...
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Confederate Calamity: The 9th Virginia Cavalry in York County
Phaeton carriage, c. 1860 at Ellwood House, DeKalb, Illinois. The 9th Virginia accosted a York County, PA army surgeon somewhere north of Dover, PA and took his fancy buggy and a pair of horses. The...
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Confederate Calamity: Fitz Lee’s brigade raids farms near Wellsville
Thousands of dusty Confederate cavalrymen from Virginia passed this old farm near Wellsville, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of June 30, 1863, during the Gettysburg Campaign. The veteran brigade of...
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