Keystone Tombstones - Anthracite Region
Joe Farrell
Non-Fiction
Biographies of famous people buried in the Anthracite Region are the focus of this localized edition of the Keystone Tombstones. Farrell and Farley have combed Northeastern Pennsylvania and the Coal Region to...
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Biographies of famous people buried in the Anthracite Region are the focus of this localized edition of the Keystone Tombstones. Farrell and Farley have combed Northeastern Pennsylvania and the Coal Region to bring you the most entertaining tales about interesting people buried in Pennsylvania. Included in this volume:
Carbon County
- Jim Thorpe
Columbia County
- Nick Adams
Lackawanna County
- James Crowley - Half the Horsemen
- Robert Casey
Luzerne County
- Congressman Dan Flood
- Mary Jo Kopechne
- The Lattimer Massacre
Monroe County
- Fred Waring
Northampton County
- Jayne Mansfield
- George Taylor
Pike County
- Zane Grey
- Mary Pinchot Meyer
- Gifford Pinchot
- Charles Henry Van Wyck
Schuylkill County
- Jack Daubert
- Jimmy Dorsey
- Black Jack Kehoe - The Molly Maguires
- The Kelayres Massacre
- Henry C. Pleasants
by Farrell & Farley
Page Count: 144
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Publish Date: April 11, 2015
Imprint: Sunbury Press
Genre: History
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