One of the reasons that I photograph a lot of gravestones during the course of my research is to help verify data that I have gathered over the years and sometimes some unexpected information comes to light as a result. While in Shippensburg this past Sunday, I found that one of my great-great-aunts had apparently remarried after the death of my great-great-uncle, but I had never seen any information about her second marriage. Aunt Lily as she was always known to the family, was married to Thomas Jefferson McClelland sometime between 1900 and 1910 and they lived in Chester County. Uncle Jeff passed away in  1941 and is buried at Spring Hill in Shippensburg in the McCune plot. Lily’s grave is right beside his, but shows her name as Elizabeth McCune McClelland Spader, so apparently she remarried in later life. Since she was still signing as Elizabeth McClelland when my parents were married in 1955, Mr. Spader became her husband sometime between 1955 and 1962 when she died. Hmmm…who was this guy and where did he come from?

From the earlier article on the Gallahers, the children of Thomas Gallaher and his wife were lined out, so we'll now move on to the next generation, in order to answer some more questions about the family.

While digging around the net, I found the following article from the Juniata Sentinel, which appeared for several weeks in April 1873: