Jacob Leroy Mehaffey in Navy uniform. Served on the U. S. S. Yosemite during the Spanish - American War. Died during a typhoon in Guam, November 13, 1900. Buried in Lancaster Cemetery.
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Second of two Diffenderfer family albums. Compiled by Frank Reid Diffenderfer, a former member of LCHS and an editor of a Lancaster city newspaper. Album documents his family as well as that of his neighbors on North Duke Street, Lancaster, beginning in 1903. Neighbors include Charles Fondersmith, Robert Slaymaker, and his daughter, Ida, who married Frank Fondersmith.
Survivors of Company F, 122nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. Present at the 39th Anniversary Reunion, May 16, 1902: Lt. George E. Zellers; Thomas Bailey; Corp. James Buyers; John High; Amos Norton; Sergt. D. C. Haverstick; Martin Keener; Corp. John Barnes; Corp. Samuel C. Seaber; Darius J. Delbo; H. C. Cummings; H. G. Northamer; William L. O'Donnell; James Black; Mansel Reed.
