BOX 1
Fd 1 Honorable
discharge from military service, enabling promotion for Sergeant Joseph Warren
Yocum, July 23, 1868
Fd 2 Monthly
return of quartermaster's stores for February 1865 by Captain Joseph Warren
Yocum
Fd 3 Transfer
of quartermaster's stores to Lieut. Joseph Warren Yocum, February 1, 1865
BOX 2
Fd 1 Civil
War cap, belt buckles, spur, and cartridge. Mementos of Major Joseph Warren
Yocum
BOX 3 (Oversize)
Fd 1 Letters
of Scouts - Indian War in Florida, 1839. Military information collected
and sent during Indian War
Fd 2 Letter
written by Major Joseph Warren Yocum to his parents, July 16, 1863. Recounts
the life of the soldier on the march from Virginia to the battle of Gettysburg
and then back to Virginia
Fd 3 Columbia
Daily Spy , April 5, 1918. Notice of Major Joseph Warren Yocum's death
BOX 4 (Oversize)
Vault Authenticated
United States flag of the Civil War era. Dated and signed by makers "W.
E. Garrett & Sons, 246 So. Front St., Phila., April 30, 1861."
BOX 5 (Oversize)
Vault Authenticated
sword of the Civil War era. One of a pair which hung over the door of Attorney
Gordon Yocum's grandmother's home
MAPCASE DRAWER
Yocum Indentures/Deeds (Oversize)
Fd 1 Deed
written in Ireland, 1670, and brought to Pennsylvania by one of the early
settlers
Fd 2 Deed
by Edward and Margaret Shippen, parents of Peggy Shippen who married Benedict
Arnold. Property in the deed was a piece of real estate owned by Edward
Shippen who was a judge in 1770 and became Chief Justice of Pennsylvania after
the Revolutionary War
Fd 3 Deed
written in 1775 to Robert Morris who was a financier of the American Revolution
and a signer of the Declaration of Independence
Fd 4 Deed
signed by Thomas Mifflin regarding property once owned by Dr. Benjamin Rush,
a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Mifflin was the first
governor of Pennsylvania, was an important person in the First Continental
Congress, and was president of Congress in 1783
