This news item, from the 28 May 1921 Harrisburg Telegraph, includes one of my Civil War soldier ancestors, Silas W. Snyder, my third great-grandfather.
Extensive Plans Are Made for Memorial Services Up-County. The Memorial sermon will be delivered in the United Brethren Church by the Rev. R.H. Arndt Sunday at 10.30 a.m. The members of the Grand Army of the Republic, American Legion and all other patriotic and fraternal orders will attend in a body. Extensive plans have been arranged for Memorial Day. In the morning committees from the various patriotic lodges will visit the country cemeteries and join with the Sunday Schools in decorating the graves of the dead. At 1 p.m. the G.A.R. [Grand Army of the Republic] and all orders will meet at Shuler’s Hall and headed by the Citizens Band and the Sunday Schools will march to the cemetery, where the following program will be presented. Invocation, the Rev. C.W. Sheaffer; music, band; address, S.W. Snyder; prayer, Chaplain Z.T. Shuler; consecration of flowers, roll of honor, J.A. Wright; decoration of graves, Sons of Veterans; Taps, Luther Erlenmeyer. The parade will then fall in line and march back to Market Square, where the Rev. C. W. Rischell, pastor of the Methodist Church, at Liverpool, will deliver the Memorial addrss [sic], followed by a band concert.[1]
[1] Harrisburg Telegraph (Harrisburg Pennsylvania), 28 May 1921. (Newspapers.com, accessed 25 July 2015).