A Guide to the Mary Ann Williamson Collection

Compiled by Eryn Kawecki

July 1, 2019

Descriptive Summary

Repository: Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia, USA

Title: Mary Ann Williamson Collection

Date Range: 1827-2005

Collection Number: 2016-0012

Extent: 33 boxes, 439 folders, 33 oversize, 1 map case

Language: English

Abstract: Various items collected by Mary Ann Williamson of Edinburg, Virginia, which primarily relate to the Edinburg and Lantz Mills communities.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions: This collection is open to researchers without restrictions. Researchers must register and agree to all copyright laws and archives policies before using the collection. Please contact the Shenandoah County Library before visiting to use this collection.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of item] Mary Ann Williamson Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia, USA.

Acquisition Information: Donation.

Processing Information: Items were sorted and then processed chronologically.

Biographical/Historical Note

All items in this collection reflect the history of Edinburg and Lantz Mills communities.  They were donated by the author Mary Ann Williamson (1924-2014), a lifelong resident of the area with strong familial ties to Edinburg and Lantz Mills.  She served as vice president of the Shenandoah Public Library and as president of the Shenandoah County Historical Society.  After retirement as an educator, Williamson founded the Edinburg Heritage Foundation in 1991 and was active in help saving the Edinburg Mill. She was a prolific writer throughout her life, having written several books and monthly newsletters of the Edinburg Heritage Foundation. Her books include The ABCs of Instruction for Boys and Girls of the Lutheran Faith in America (1975); 303 Mini-Lessons for Social Studies (1976); The History of Edinburg, Virginia (1994); Union Forge: Shenandoah County, Virginia (1997); The Diary of a Virginia Gentlewoman, 1943-1947, Laura Crabill Evans (2000); and Peculiar Old Wills and Testaments (2004).

Scope and Content

The Mary Ann Williamson Collection consists of 54 linear feet of material, which is stored in 33 boxes, 33 oversize folders, and 1 map case. The collection includes 439 folders of materials. These materials include a collection of photographs, news clippings, survey records, church documents, scrapbooks, and approximately 67 ledgers, ledger documents, checkbooks, and other financial records. The collection is organized into the following 15 series:

Series I, Edinburg, 1850-2002 has a variety of items, including newspapers and newspaper clippings, correspondence, and photographs relating to the time period indicated in Edinburg, Virginia. Items are filed according to original order.

Series II, R.D. Newland, 1829-1976 includes financial documents, photographs, and other documents relating to the Newland family. Items are sorted chronologically.

Series III, Documents, 1817-2006 includes various documents and records relating to Shenandoah County. Items are filed according to original order.

Series IV, Stoneburner, 1810-1968 includes documents relating to the Stoneburner family. Items are filed according to original order.

Series V, Foltz, 1887-1953 includes documents and correspondence relating to the Foltz family. Items are filed according to original order.

Series VI, Cortland Bowman, 1904-1942 covers financial and business documents relating to Bowman Orchards. Items are filed according to original order.

Series VII, Photographs, 1838-2003 consists of photographs and scrapbooks relating to Shenandoah County. The bulk of the items are undated. Items are filed according to original order.

Series VIII, Reformed Church, 1857-1980 includes register books, programs, and minutes of the German Reformed Church and St. Paul’s Reformed Church. Items are filed according to original order.

Series IX, L.D. Clinedinst, 1890-1984 includes checks, check books, stubs, and other financial documents relating to L.D. Clinedinst. Items are filed according to original order.

Series X, Crim, 1937-1968 consists of genealogical research and documents relating to Virginia Crim’s ancestry. The Crim, Grubb, Newlin, and Dickinson families are represented in the documentation. Items are filed chronologically.

Series XI, Scrapbooks, undated consists of four scrapbooks primarily compiling newspaper clippings of surrounding areas in Shenandoah County. The titles reflect the areas the clippings relate to. One scrapbook in particular belonged to Josephine Hutcheson Magnifico, and it reflected the years 1947 to 1951.

Series XII, Frakturs, 1835 local frakturs.

Series XIII, Valley Bottling Company, 1930-1941 includes financial books and documents relating to the Valley Bottling Company. Items are filed according to original order.

Series XIV, School Registers, 1900-1902 consists of three school registers of Shenandoah County Schools from the time period indicated. The registers are filed chronologically.

Series V, Postcards Sent to Local Families, 1906-1954 consists of a single volume of postcards. The postcards were received by people in Shenandoah County, primarily in the Edinburg area. The families primarily represented are the Branners, Irwins, and Kiblers.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in fifteen (15) series:

Series I: Edinburg, 1850-2002

                Box 1: Stack 6, Shelf 2

                Box 2: Stack 6, Shelf 2

                Box 3: Stack 6, Shelf 2

                Box 4: Stack 6, Shelf 2

                Box 30: Stack 6, Shelf 7

                Oversized Box 31: Stack 6, Shelf 7

Series II: R.D. Newland, 1829-1976

                Box 5: Stack 6, Shelf 2

                Box 6: Stack 6, Shelf 2

                Box 32: Stack 6, Shelf 2

                Oversize folder 22: Stack 6, Shelf 7

Series III: Documents, 1817-2006

                Box 7: Stack 6, Shelf 2

                Box 8: Stack 6, Shelf 2

                Box 9: Stack 6, Shelf 3

                Box 10: Stack 6, Shelf 3

                Box 11: Stack 6, Shelf 3

                Box 12: Stack 6, Shelf 3

                Box 13: Stack 6, Shelf 3

                Oversize folder 2: Stack 6, Shelf 7

                Oversize folder 5: Stack 6, Shelf 7

                Oversize folder 6: Stack 6, Shelf 7

                Oversize folder 7: Stack 6, Shelf 7

                Oversize folder 8: Stack 6, Shelf 7

                Oversize folder 9: Stack 6, Shelf 7

                Oversize folder 10: Stack 6, Shelf 7

                Oversize folder 11: Stack 6, Shelf 7

                Oversize folder 12: Stack 6, Shelf 7

                Oversize folder 16: Stack 6, Shelf 7

                Oversize folder 18: Stack 6, Shelf 7

                Oversize folder 19: Stack 6, Shelf 7

                Oversize folder 20: Stack 6, Shelf 7

                Oversize folder 21: Stack 6, Shelf 7

                Oversize folder 23: Stack 6, Shelf 7

                Oversize folder 24: Stack 6, Shelf 7

                Oversize folder 27: Stack 6, Shelf 7

                Oversize folder 30: Stack 6, Shelf 7

                Oversize folder 32: Stack 6, Shelf 7

                Oversize folder 33: Stack 6, Shelf 7

                Map Case Drawer D

Series IV: Stoneburner, 1810-1968

                Box 13: Stack 6, Shelf 3

Series V: Foltz, 1887-1953

                Box 14: Stack 6, Shelf 3

                Box 15: Stack 6, Shelf 3

                Oversize folder 17: Stack 6, Shelf 7

Series VI: Cortland Bowman, 1904-1942

                Box 16: Stack 6, Shelf 4

Series VII: Photographs, 1838-2003

                Box 17: Stack 6, Shelf 4

                Box 18: Stack 6, Shelf 4

                Box 19: Stack 6, Shelf 4

                Box 20: Stack 6, Shelf 4

                Oversize folder 1: Stack 6, Shelf 7

Series VIII: Reformed Church, 1857-1980

                Box 21: Stack 6, Shelf 4

                Box 22: Stack 6, Shelf 5

Series IX: L.D. Clinedinst, 1890-1984

                Box 23: Stack 6, Shelf 4

Series X: Crim, 1937-1968

                Box 24: Stack 6, Shelf 4

                Oversize folder 29: Stack 6, Shelf 7

Series XI: Scrapbooks, 1947-1996

                Box 25: Stack 6, Shelf 5

                Box 26: Stack 6, Shelf 5

                Box 27: Stack 6, Shelf 6

Series XII: Frakturs, 1835

                Box 28: Stack 6, Shelf 6

Series XIII: Valley Bottling Company, 1930-1941

                Box 29: Stack 6, Shelf 7

Series XIV: School Registers, 1900-1902

                Box 30: Stack 6, Shelf 7

Series XV: Postcards Sent to Local Families, 1906-1954

                Volume 1: Stack 6, Shelf 4

Inventory

Series I: Edinburg

 

Box 1:  Stack 6, Shelf 2

Folder 1.1  Decorative Woodwork, Edinburg Virginia, undated

Folder 1.2  Woodstock and Edinburg Virginia, Historic Pamphlets and Clippings, 1925-1999

Folder 1.3  Shenandoah County Bicentennial Historic Homes tour, 1972

Folder 1.4  Edinburg Virginia, A Thrice Named Town in Twice named County, by Louise Mathers, 1972

Folder 1.5  Woodstock and Edinburg Virginia Lions Club, ca, 1940-1990

Folder 1.6  Edinburg Town Maps for tours undated

Folder 1.7  Edinburg Chamber of Commerce, 1975-1985

Folder 1. 8  “Certification of Promotion to High School”, Mary Ellen Grove, undated

Folder 1.9  Edinburg Chamber of Commerce, 1961-1999

Folder 1.10  Farmers Bank of Edinburg, 1905-1955

Folder 1.11  St. Paul’s United Church of Christ Records, ca 1935-1945

Folder 1.12  Edinburg Area Schools, 1876-1999, 1of2

Folder 1.13  Edinburg Area Schools, 1876-1992 2of2

Folder 1.14  Edinburg Libraries, 1982-1999

Folder 1.15  Invitations to Social Dances in Edinburg Virginia, 1898-1900

Folder 1.16  Lantz House Purchase, Edinburg Virginia, 1890-1909

Folder 1.17  Railroad, Edinburg Virginia, 1910-1972

Folder 1.18  Edinburg Post Office Dedication, 1959

Folder 1.19  Whissen House, Edinburg Virginia, undated

Folder 1.20  Edinburg Churches, 1856-1991

Folder 1.21  Edinburg Residents, ca 1910

Folder 1.22  Properties for Historic Survey, Edinburg Virginia, ca 1994

Folder 1.23  Edinburg Houses, undated

Folder 1.24  Edinburg Community Library, 1969-1994

 

Box 2: Stack 6, Shelf 2

Folder 2.1  Edinburg programs, 1909-1994

Folder 2.2  Historic programs, Photographs and Clippings, 1850-1989

Folder 2.3  Articles about Edinburg People, 1994-1995

Folder 2.4  Letter from Sarah Steenberger to Ella, August 25 1861

Folder 2.5  Edinburg People, 1921-1995

Folder 2.6  Edinburg People and Places, 1882-1977

Folder 2.7  Letter to Kate from camp near Brandy Station, undated

Folder 2.8  Photographs of Edinburg People and Places, 1876-ca1995

Folder 2.9  Edinburg Obituaries, 1938-1945

Folder 2.10  Edinburg Scenes, undated

Folder 2.11  Edinburg Homecoming, 1925

Folder 2.12  Edinburg Baseball, 1907-1949

Folder 2.13  Edinburg Houses on Tour, 1910-1987

Folder 2.14  Edinburg Basketball Team, 1942

Folder 2.15  Blacks in Edinburg, undated

Folder 2.16  Survey Record, 1889

Folder 2.17  Union Life Insurance Company, Melvin Lutz, Salesman, 1934-1954

Folder 2.18  Edinburg Companies, 1904-1992

Folder 2.19  Edinburg Town Notes, 1858-1904

Folder 2.20  Edinburg Entertainments, 1976-1986

Folder 2.21  Edinburg Photographs, Historic and Old Time Festival, ca.1900-1995

Folder 2.22  Mary Ann Williamson’s Clippings and Edinburg Publications,

Folder 2.23  Edinburg Newspaper Clippings, 1972-1992

Folder 2.24  Edinburg “Ole Time Festival” Programs and Publications, 1985-1994

Folder 2.25  Cave Springs Resort, undated

 

Box 3: Stack 6, Shelf 2

Folder 3.1  Riverside Tearoom, ca1940

Folder 3.2  Grange Organization, Edinburg Virginia, 1874

Folder 3.3  Letter to Agrippa Ludwig, from Whitman, Hisey and Co., 1893

Folder 3.4  “Edinburg Salesman”, undated

Folder 3.5  Bowman and Ward Garage, undated

Folder 3.6  Edinburg/Madison District Industrial Survey, 1930

Folder 3.7  Studebaker in Edinburg, undated

Folder 3.8  Evan’s Grocery, 1931-1980 Article about County Businesses, ca 1981

Folder 3.9  Articles about County Businesses, ca. 1981

Folder 3.10  Political Newspaper Clippings, 1978-1982

Folder 3.11  High School Reunion Photographs, 1979-1981

Folder 3.12  “Merry Christmas” from the Edinburg Bottling Works, 1924

Folder 3.13  Hugh Saum Ledger, 1922

Folder 3.14  Edinburg Bicentennial Newspaper Clippings, 1972

Folder 3.15  “Something Old” Newspaper Clippings,1981

Folder 3.16  Edinburg Fire Company Theatrical Productions, 1931-1935

Folder 3.17  “Opera House,’ 1911

Folder 3.18  “Shenandoah” Program, undated

Folder 3.19  Edinburg Bicentennial, 1972

Folder 3.20  “Home Ec” Banquet, 1940

Folder 3.21  Roll of”Lic-su-lo” Campfire Girls, 1918

Folder 3.22  Edinburg High School, 1927-1928

Folder 3.23  Edinburg Ole Time Festival, 1981

Folder 3.24  Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Documents, 1918-1929

 

Box 4: Stack 6, Shelf 2

Recording of Winchester/Frederick County Historical Society Meeting Sept 27, 1991

 

Box 30: Stack 6, Shelf 7

The Farmers Bank of Edinburg Blank Checkbook, undated

The Farmers Bank of Edinburg Columbia Roller Mills Checkbook, 1929-1930

Box and Key Register, Edinburg Post Office, 1910-1927

OVERSIZE

Box 31

Oversize Folder 3 Edinburg Heritage Foundation Publications, 1997-2008 Stack 6, Shelf 7

Oversize Folder 4  Edinburg, Mill, undated Stack 6, Shelf 7

Oversize Folder 13  “Real Estate Sale,” Keister Estate, Edinburg Virginia, April 30, 1949 Stack 6, Shelf 7

Oversize Folder 14  “Maroon and Gold,” Edinburg High School Newspaper, 1927 Stack 6, Shelf 7

Oversize Folder 15  Edinburg Virginia Drawings by Linda Varney, undated Stack 6, Shelf 7

Oversize Folder 25  Photograph of Edinburg Manufacturing Company Employees, 1924 Stack 6, Shelf 7

Oversize Folder 26  Louis Evans Marks Edinburg High School Diploma and “The Critograph” School Newspaper, 1915-1922   Stack 6, Shelf 7

Oversize Folder 28  Edinburg “Ole Time” Festival Newspapers, 1987-2002 Stack 6, Shelf 7

Oversize Folder 31  Newspapers Referencing History, 1976-1992 Stack 6, Shelf 7

 

Series II: R. D. Newland

 

Box 5: Stack 6, Shelf 2

Folder 5.1  Newland Financial Documents, 1830-1877

Folder 5.2  Shenandoah Farmer’s Home Mutual Insurance Company, 1887-1896

Folder 5.3  Business Postcards, 1879-1888

Folder 5.4  Railroad Receipts, 1860-1894

Folder 5.5  United States and Southern Express Companies, 1882-1896

Folder 5.6  A.J. McQuay Bills, 1882

Folder 5.7  Massanutten Academy Subscription, 1899

Folder 5.8  Copies of Newland Correspondence, 1901

Folder 5.9  R.D. Newland Hardware Advertisements

Folder 5.10  Newland Documents, 1848-1863

Folder 5.11  Letter to R.D. Newland, 1881-1903

Folder 5.12  Letters to Susan Newland, 1871-1878

Folder 5.13  Letters to R.D. Newland, 1881-1903

Folder 5.14  Citizens Bank of New Market, “Book of Thrift”’ Coin Bank, ca 1923

Folder 5.15  James D. Newland, Pocket Ledger, 1883-1886

Folder 5.16  James D. Newland Pocket Ledger, 1882-1883

Folder 5.17  “Virginia Old Dominion State”, Coasters undated

Folder 5.18  Edinburg Reformed Church Treasurer’s Book, 1923

 

Box  6: Stack 6, Shelf 2

R.D. Newland Pocket Ledger, undated

R.D. Newland Pocket Ledger, 1883-1884

R.D. Newland Thresh Book, 1895

 

Box 32: Stack 6, Shelf 2

                Folder 32.1  Partial Photograph of “Homeplace” ca. 1908

                Folder 32.2  William D. Jennings Newspaper Letter, October 1 1918

                Folder 32.3  John C. Hutchenson, 1942

Folder 32.4  Doctor Bill for Delivery of Baby, R.C. Fravel to Mrs. Frank Beazley, October 14 1942

Folder 32.5  Photograph of Unidentified Woman at Beach, March 1944

Folder 32.6  “The Ole Family Album,” Play Documents, Edinburg Virginia, March 26 1953

Folder 32.7  “The Ole Family Album,” Play Photographs (4x5”), Edinburg Virginia, March 26 1953

Folder 32.8  “The Ole Family Album,” Play Photographs (8x10”), Edinburg Virginia, March 26, 1953

Folder 32.9  “The Observer,” Edinburg High School Newsletter, 1959

Folder 32.10  Pitt Parnell Fultz Funeral Pamphlet, August 4 1970

Folder 32.11  Charles Herbert Cummins, Jr. Funeral Pamphlet, December 13 1975

Folder 32.12  Truman Heishman Coffman Funeral Pamphlet, Edinburg Virginia, June 9 1976

Folder 32.13  Unidentified School Photographs, Undated

Folder 32.14  Photographs of Unidentified Workmen, Undated

Folder 32.15  “Conclusion of Louis Marks’ Grandfather’s Historical Account,” Undated

Folder 32.16  Religious Writings, Undated

Folder 32.17  “Lee Francis M.G.S. Wheeler” Photograph, Undated

Folder 32.18  Unlabeled Photographs, Undated

Folder 32.19  Labeled Photographs, Unidentified Boy and Girl, Undated

Folder 32.20  Labeled Photographs of Unidentified People, Undated

Folder 32.21  Holiday Card from Catherine Smith with enclosed Photograph, Undated

 

OVERSIZE

Oversize Folder 22 Financial Documents and Letter, 1829-1881 Stack 6, Shelf 7

 

Series III:  Documents

 

Box 7: Stack 6, Shelf 2

Folder 7.1  Shenandoah Valley Loan and Trust Company Woodstock, Virginia, Undated

Folder 7.2  Assorted Shenandoah Valley Documents, 1845-1955

Folder 7.3  Resolution of Respect for Mrs. F. C. Wisman, 1940

Folder 7.4  Shenandoah County Bicentennial Celebrations, 1972-1979

Folder 7.5  Business Advertisements, Undated

Folder 7.6  Bridgewater College, 1948-1950

Folder 7.7  Letter to S. Rowland from Sam R. Prichard, 1843

Folder 7.8  History of Winchester and the Shenandoah Valley, Undated

Folder 7.9  Deed between R. Bauserman and William and Caroline Ederline, 1914

Folder 7.10  Jefferson Shields, Undated

Folder 7.11  Roll of Company K, 12th Virginia Calvary compiled by Jonathan Rinker, 1908

Folder 7.12  “A Time of Change”, An Exhibit of 19th Century Farmers of the Valley, 1969

Folder 7.13  J.D. Lemmon, J. Hutcheson, A.C. Burkett’s Store, and Zion Lutheran Church Documents, 1895-1900

Folder 7.14  Letter to Susan Roller of Walnut Springs, 1839

Folder 7.15  Shenandoah County Schools

Folder 7.16 St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Septaquintaquinquecentennial Pamphlet,Jerome Virginia 2002

Folder 7.17  “St. Thomas Speaks” Middletown Virginia, 1994

Folder 7.18  Mt. Jackson Masonic Lodge Centennial Pamphlet, 1992

Folder 7.19  Woodstock Virginia, Undated

Folder 7.20  Mt. Jackson Virginia History, 1992-2003

Folder 7.21  Survey of Mt. Jackson and Community by Julia Fansler, 1930

Folder 7.22  “The ABC’s of Instruction for Boys and Girls of the Lutheran Faith in America”, 1975

Folder 7.23  Civil War Poem Read by Captain McCabe in 1887

Folder 7.24  Scenes from the Shenandoah Valley, 1986

Folder 7.25  Geology of Edinburg Virginia, ca. 1990

Folder 7.26  Moomaw Log House, ca. 1900

Folder 7.27  Charles Lindbergh in the Valley, 1927

Folder 7.28  French Family, 1998-2005

Folder 7.29  Bowman Family, 1959-1992

Folder 7.30  Philip Helsley and Zion Church, 1852-1860

Folder 7.31  Myers Farm House, 1969

Folder 7.32  Shenandoah Memorial Hospital Dedication, 1949-1951

Folder 7.33  Woodstock High School Commencement, 1930

Folder 7.34  Madison College Commencement, 1945

Folder 7.35  Shrine Mont, Orkney Springs Virginia, 1925

Folder 7.36  Dinges Papers, 1895-1975

Folder 7.37  Certificate of Registration, Sunday School Board Union Forge, 1926

 

Box 8: Stack 6, Shelf 2

Folder 8.1 Newspaper Clipping and Index ca. 1900-1989

Folder 8.2 Dr. John Wayland Address on Early Reformed Church, Northern Virginia Daily, May 18, 1948

Folder 8.3 Newspaper Clippings, 1926-1982

Folder 8.4 “The Gospel According to St. John”, Undated

Folder 8.5 Envelopes from the New York City Department of Health and the Municipal Civil Folder Service Commission, Undated

Folder 8.6 Valentine’s Day and Easter Cards, 1930-1936

Folder 8.7 Mary Ann Lutz (Williamson)’s Classmate Card Album, Edinburg Virginia 1946

Folder 8.8 Lovettsville High School Graduation Announcement for Maxine Holler, 1946

Folder 8.9 Mae Agnee Evans Composition Book, Edinburg Virginia 1925

Folder 8.10 Evans Tax Papers, 1923-1943

Folder 8.11 Marks/Evans Families Deaths, 1892-1955

Folder 8.12 “Westover” House, Edinburg Virginia, 1920-1924

Folder 8.13 King Kola Bottling Certificate for Shares #60, Undated

Folder 8.14 Lutz Family Obituaries and Memorial Cards, 1903-1976

Folder 8.15 Cookbook Compiled by Ladies Auxiliary of Emmanuel-St. Matthew’s Church, New Market Virginia, 1951

Folder 8.16 “Customer List” Union Forge Ledger, 1863

Folder 8.17 Union Forge Church Scrapbook, 1904-1953

Folder 8.18 Union Forge Church Records, 1858-1914

Folder 8.19 Union Forge Church Ladies Mite Society, 1900-1913

Folder 8.20 Union Forge Church Records, 1923-1963

Folder 8.21 Letter to Mr. Massy from John Brewer, New Market Virginia, April 14, 1832

Folder 8.22 Coal Mine Presbyterian Sunday School Ledger, 1894-1902

Folder 8.23 Bicentennial Program St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, Mt. Olive Virginia 2006

Folder 8.24 Invitation to Sunday School Cornerstone Laying, Emanuel Lutheran Church, Woodstock Virginia,1956

Folder 8.25 Knott’s Berry Farm, Chicken Dinner Menu, Buena Park California, ca. 1946

 

Box 9: Stack 6, Shelf 3

Folder 9.1 Brooks Gap Church Records, 1843-1939

Folder 9.2 Evans Stores, Poetry, Letters, and Drawings, ca. 1910-1945

Folder 9.3 Constitution of International Brotherhood of Maintenance –of-Way-Employes, 1909

Folder 9.4 Bark sent to J.P. Houck Tanning Company, Harrisonburg Virginia, May 5 1890

Folder 9.5 Diary of Winona Louise Lantz Hollar, 1932

Folder 9.6 Nora Foltz Autograph Book, 1888-1889

Folder 9.7 Edinburg Academy Register, 1896-1902

Folder 9.8 Constitution and Bylaws of the Shenandoah Lodge I.O.O.F., 1900

Folder 9.9 Shenandoah County Postmaster List, 1832-1971

Folder 9.10 Appraisal Order for Nora Getz Estate, Undated

Folder 9.11 Mary Ann Williamson, ca. 1984

Folder 9.12 Newspaper Clippings of Strange Deaths, 1904-1905

Folder 9.13 Remembrance Cards for Funerals held by Dellinger’s, 1945-1995

Folder 9.14 Newspaper Clippings about Shenandoah Valley Families in the Second World War

Folder 9.15 Letter to Charles Coffman about Columbia Furnace Cemetery, Jun 9 1944

Folder 9.16 Bill from Frank Fravel and James Chandler, Undertakers, to Mrs. Sarah Murray, 1920

Folder 9.17 “Virginia, The Beckoning Lord”, Guidebook, Undated

Folder 9.18 Narrow Passage Chapter DAR Yearbook, 1998-2001

Folder 9.19 Receipts, 1898-1899

Folder 9.20 Out of County Graduation Announcements, 1897-1907

Folder 9.21 Engagement, Anniversary, and Marriage Announcements, 1886-1917

 

Box 10: Stack 6, Shelf 3

Zane/Rinker Ledger, 1795-1876

The Housekeep Beautiful

Preston Lutz Ledger, 1935-1936

 

Box 11: Stack 6, Shelf 3

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Samuel Kirkham, 1834

Home Reading- Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, given to Bertie Gochenour, 1884

Unidentified Ledger of Shenandoah County, 1903-1911

 

Box 12: Stack 6, Shelf 3

Murray Hardware Company Ledger 1921

Murray Hardware Company Ledger, 1929-1930

Atlantic Refining Company Ledger, 1908-1919

 

Box 13: Stack 6, Shelf 3

Folder 13.1 Sheetz Family Receipts and Postcards, ca. 1890

Folder 13.2 Letter from Don Leslie Sheetz to his Mother sent from Frank, December 31, 1918

Folder 13.3 Telegram from J.O. Heinbaugh to Mrs. Ellie Sheetz, December 3, 1902

Folder 13.4 Letter to Charlotte Sheetz from Mary Jane concerns Don Sheetz, France, May 1919

Folder 13.5 Letter to W.M. Lutz, agent, from Union Life Insurance Company, July 23, 1953

Folder 13.6 Documents from page 150-157 of Preston Lutz Ledger, 1935-1936

Folder 13.7 Documents from inside front cover of Preston Lutz Ledger, 1935-1936

Folder 13.8 Documents from page 141 of Preston Lutz Ledger, 1935-1936

 

OVERSIZE

Oversize Folder 2  Light Up Woodstock, 2001 Stack 6, Shelf 7     

Oversize Folder 5  Cabin Hill Drawing by Erasmus Lutz, 1890 Stack 6, Shelf 7    

Oversize Folder 6  Reformed Church Messenger  December 19, 1888  Stack 6, Shelf 7    

Oversize Folder 7  Copy of The Woodstock Herald, Dec. 24, 1817  Vol. I, No. I, Page 1 Stack 6, Shelf 7    

Oversize Folder 8  “Historic ABCs Are Published” Virginia Lutheran, November 1975 Stack 6, Shelf 7    

Oversize Folder 9 Shenandoah County Guide, 1989-1900 Stack 6, Shelf 7    

Oversize Folder 10 “Japanese Lovesong” Sheet Music, 1902  Stack 6, Shelf 7    

Oversize Folder 11 “Shenandoah Valley”, Holiday Magazine, November 1952 Stack 6, Shelf 7    

Oversize Folder 12 Report and Recommendation of the School Survey Committee, 1954 Stack 6, Shelf 7    

Oversize Folder 16 Trustees Sale of Valuable Personal Property – R.H. Lantz, January 8-9, 1925 Stack 6, Shelf 7    

Oversize Folder 18 “Valley Week” Daily News-Record, Harrisonburg, Virginia, 1973-1979 Stack 6, Shelf 7    

Oversize Folder 19 Conicville School Records, 1912-1913 Stack 6, Shelf 7    

Oversize Folder 20 Unidentified Newspaper featuring Edinburg Virginia Advertisements, undated Stack 6, Shelf 7    

Oversize Folder 21 The Ladies Home Journal, November 1898 Stack 6, Shelf 7    

Oversize Folder 23 Indenture between Joseph Borden and George Swartz, January 2, 1827 Stack 6, Shelf 7    

Oversize Folder 24 Birth and Baptism Documents-Mahlon Bushong, ca. 1875 Stack 6, Shelf 7    

Oversize Folder 27 Drawings of Sites in Shenandoah County, undated Stack 6, Shelf 7    

Oversize Folder 30 “1864: The Valley Aflame” Daily News Record, Harrisonburg, Virginia 2004 Stack 6, Shelf 7    

Oversize Folder 32 “Butcherin’,” Shenandoah Valley-Herald, January 25, 1979 Stack 6, Shelf 7    

Oversize Folder 33 Edinburg Sentinel Clippings, 1918 Stack 6, Shelf 7

 

Map Case Drawer D:

Folder 12: “Bootlegger’s Map of the United States, 1926

 

Series IV: Stoneburner

 

Box 13: Stack 6, Shelf 3

Folder 13.9 Dr. Ralph Stoneburner Birth Record, Shenandoah County Virginia, 1918-1922

Folder 13.10 Dr. Ralph Stoneburner Birth Memorandum, Kanawha County West Virginia, 1922-1924

Folder 13.11 Dr. Ralph Stoneburner Notes, 1925-1926

Folder 13.12 Stoneburner Death Notices and Marriage Announcements, 1931-1936

Folder 13.13 Dr. R.W. Stoneburner, 1943-1968

Folder 13.14 Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Stoneburner Family, 1810

Folder 13.15 Edinburg Post Office Dedication, October 4, 1959

Folder 13.16 Photograph of Edinburg Virginia after Fire, December 21, 1895

 

 

Series V: Foltz

 

Box 14: Stack 6, Shelf 3

Folder 14.1 Medford Allison Vest Pocket Dictionary, 1913

Folder 14.2 “The Soldiers Handbook: The Infantry Journal”, 1940

Folder 14.3 N.S. Foltz Household Expense Book, Forestville Virginia, 1906-1946

Folder 14.4 “Court House Park” Postcard sent to Nora Foltz, 1906

Folder 14.5 U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1933

Folder 14.6 “Tinkling Springs – Headwater of Freedom”, 1953

Folder 14.7 Williamsburg Paper Dolls for Gentlemen, 1939

Folder 14.8 Mason’s, ca. 1924

Folder 14.9 “Debit Route Card” Union Life Insurance, Melvin Lutz Agent, Undated

Folder 14.10 Caroline Foltz Autograph Book, Forestville Virginia, 1888

Folder 14.11 Letter to Mollie Foltz, Quicksburg Virginia, April 21, 1904

Folder 14.12 Letter to Millie Foltz, Quicksburg Virginia, December 13, 1904

Folder 14.13 Letter to Nora Foltz of Forestville from Charles of New Market, January 20, 1895

Folder 14.14 Letter to Nora Foltz of Forestville from Charles of New Market, March 24, 1895

Folder 14.15 Letter to Nora Foltz of Forestville from Charles of New Market, March 4, 1895

Folder 14.16 Letter to Nora Foltz of Forestville from Charles of New Market, April 21, 1895

Folder 14.17 Letter to Nora Foltz of Forestville from Charles of New Market, December 4, 1904

Folder 14.18 Letter to Nora Foltz of Forestville from Charles of New Market, March 12, 1895

Folder 14.19 Letter to Nora Foltz of Forestville from Charles of New Market, February 6, 1895

Folder 14.20 Letter to Nora Foltz of Forestville from James V. Cline of Daudridge Tennessee, August 20 1896

Folder 14.21 Letter to Nora Foltz of Forestville from James V. Cline of Daudridge Tennessee, July 28 1896

Folder 14.22 Letter to Nora Foltz of Forestville from Charles of New Market, January 6 1895

Folder 14.23 Letter to Nora Foltz of Forestville from Chicago Tribune, June 30 1913

Folder 14.24 Letter to Nora Foltz from C.M. Foltz, March 5 1917

Folder 14.25 Account Correspondence between Caroline Foltz and V.L. Dellinger & Son Funeral Directors, 1939

Folder 14.26 Letters to Caroline Foltz of Quicksburg from Woman’s Work Exchanges, 1912-1927

Folder 14.27 Postcards for the Servicemen, ca. 1917-1918

 

Box 15: Stack 6, Shelf 3

Folder 15.1 Shenandoah Farmer’s Home Mutual Fire Insurance Company, 1901-1927

Folder 15.2 Letter to Nora Foltz from Charles Foltz, February 19 1918

Folder 15.3 Letter to Cora Foltz from Charles Foltz, October 27 1919

Folder 15.4 Correspondence with Ladies’ Home Journal, 1912-1913

Folder 15.5 Letter to Caroline Foltz from Mollie, June 16, 1919

Folder 15.6 Letter to Nora Foltz of Forestville from Laura Bowers, September 24 1918

Folder 15.7 Letter to Nora Foltz from Charles Foltz, December 6 1918

Folder 15.8 Letter to Nora Foltz from Charles Foltz, January 21 1917

Folder 15.9 Letter to Nora Foltz from Charles Foltz, October 30 1917

Folder 15.10 Mt. Jackson High School Graduation Announcement to “Mother” from Charles Lutz, 1926

Folder 15.11 Report from Bedford Tire and Rubber Company, May 30, 1936

Folder 15.12 Constitution and By-Laws, Shenandoah Farmer’s Home Mutual Fire Insurance, 1907

Folder 15.13 Shenandoah Farmer’s Home Mutual Fire Insurance Company Documents, 1908-1921

Folder 15.14 Foltz and Lutz Receipts, 1936-1941

Folder 15.15 Information on Nathaniel Scott Foltz Family and their Letters, Undated

Folder 15.16 Foltz Family Photographs, Labeled and Undated

Folder 15.17 Foltz Family Tin Types, Undated

Folder 15.18 Foltz Family Postcards, 1908-1915

Folder 15.19 Foltz Family Postcards, 1906-1925

Folder 15.20 Foltz Family Postcards, 1908-1927

Folder 15.21 Foltz Family Postcards, 1906-1917

Folder 15.22 Foltz Family Cards and Letters, 1887- 1920

Folder 15.23 Forestville Lutheran Church Collection Record, 1909-1939

Folder 15.24 Funeral Pamphlets, 1942-1952

Folder 15.25 Foltz Family Letters, 1895-1941

Folder 15.26 Shenandoah County Postcards, ca. 1909

 

OVERSIZE

Oversize Folder 17  Reformed Church Messenger, August 28, 1887 Stack 6, Shelf 7    

 

Series VI: Cortland Bowman

 

Box 16: Stack 6, Shelf 4    

Folder 16.1 Courtland Bowman information, 1904-1949

Folder 16.2 Turkeys Lost and Expenses, 1942-1943

Folder 16.3 Egg and Turkey, 1939-1941

Folder 16.4 Apple and Turkey Expenses, 1941-1942, 1of2

Folder 16.5 Apple and Turkey Expanses, 1941-1942, 2of2

Folders 16.6 Ciders, 1936

Folder 16.7 Cold Storage, 1936

Folder 16.8 Apple Pickers, 1938-1939

Folder 16.9 Business Documents, 1940-1944

Folder 16.10 Sales and Purchases, Courtland Bowman Orchards, 1942

Folder 16.11 American Fruit Growers, 1942

Folder 16.12 Bowman Apple Products Purchase Forms, 1942

 

Series VII: Photographs

 

Box 17: Stack 6, Shelf 4    

Folder 17.1 Unidentified Crabill, Marks, and Evans Family, Photographs, undated

Folder 17.2 Unidentified Buildings, undated

Folder 17.3 Farm Scenes, ca 1929

Folder 17.4 Labeled Photographs, undated 1 of 2

Folder 17.5 Labeled Photographs, undated 2 of 2

Folder 17.6 Edinburg snake and Alligator, undated

Folder 17.7 Edinburg Photographs, Undated

Folder 17.8 Woodstock Photographs, undated

Folder 17.9 Shenandoah County Fair, undated

Folder 17.10 Shenandoah County Dams and Waterways, undated

Folder 17.11 Town Pump, New Market Virginia, undated

Folder 17.12 Edinburg Baseball Team, undated

Folder 17.13 Calvary Cornet Band, undated

Folder 17.14 Conicville School Class of 1909

Folder 17.15 Zirkle, World War One, ca1918

Folder 17.16 Marston, undated

Folder 17.17 Murphy, undated

Folder 17.18 Whissen Mill, undated

 

Box 18:  Stack 6, Shelf 4    

Folder 18.1 St. Paul’s UCC Church Scrapbook, Edinburg Virginia, 1980-2003 1of3

Folder 18.2 St. Paul’s UCC Church Scrapbook, Edinburg Virginia, 1980-2003 2of3

Folder 18.3 St, Paul’s UCC Church Scrapbook, Edinburg Virginia, 1980-2003 3of3

Folder 18.4 Lois Marck’s “Snap Shots”, book, ca 1914

Folder 18.5 Unlabeled Photographs, undated 1 of 2

Folder 18.6 Unlabeled Photographs, undated 2 of 2

 

Box 19: Stack 6, Shelf 4    

Folder 19.1 Unlabeled Photographs, 1893-1929

Folder 19.2 Labeled Photographs, 1904-1994

Folder 19.3 Edinburg Historic Photographs, ca1910-1998

Folder 19.4 W.A. Lantz, undated

Folder 19.5 Landscapes, Edinburg Virginia, undated

Folder 19.6 Aerial Photograph of Farm, undated

Folder 19. 7 “Old Family Al___”, Pageant, Dalke’s Theatre Edinburg Virginia, 1953

Folder 19.8 Trilby Holler, undated

Folder 19.9 Levi Emswiler, ca1900

Folder 19.10 Picnic Photograph, identified, undated

Folder 19.11 Professor and Mrs. Monroe Hottle

Folder 19.12 Downey Photographs, 1924-1947

Folder 19.13 Adelarde Hardy Beachy, undated

Folder 19.14 Forestville, 1893

Folder 19.15 Hutchonson Photographs, ca 1920-1930

Folder 19.16 Glass Plates and Negatives, undated

Folder 19.17 Documents and unidentified Photographs from Evans Family 1908-1948

Folder 19.18 Union Forge Store Furniture Pictures, 1997

Folder 19.19 Evan’s Family Photographs, ca 1910 ca 1940, 1of 2

Folder 19.20 Evan’s Family Photographs, ca 1910 ca 1940, 2 of 2

 

Box 20: Stack 6, Shelf 4    

Folder 20.1  Wightman. ca 1922

Folder 20.2  Meem’s Bottom Bridge, ca 1976

Folder 20. 3 “Birthday Party at Miss Lily’s” Edinburg Virginia, March 17 1935

Folder 20.4 Swartz, Cummings, Sheffer, and Tsinger Portraits, undated

Folder 20.5 Professor Hottle’s School Class, undated

Folder 20.6 Ezra Eugenias Stickley, Stonewall Brigade, 1839-1915

Folder 20.7 Sgt. Major Hugh Grandstaff, U.S. Army, 1897-1920

Folder 20.8 Jones Family Photographs, ca.1910-1924

Folder 20.9 Bartons, 1838-1924

Folder 20.10 Lutz Family Photographs, undated

Folder 20.11 Lutz Family and Greenbrier Mill, 1848-1943

Folder 20.12 Lutz Family Military Items, 1918- ca.1941

Folder 20.13 Photographs of Lantz Family and Lantz’s Mill Community, 1906

Folder 20.14 Sheetz Family Photographs, ca 1900 ca 1950

Folder 20.15 Photograph of Edinburg UCC Church Youth, undated

 

OVERSIZE

Oversized Folder 1 Photograph of Lois Evans (Marks), ca 1905 Stack 6, Shelf 7    

 

Series VIII: Reformed Church

 

Box 21: Stack 6, Shelf 4     

Folder 21.1 Documents from Church Register Books, 1923-1956

Folder 21.2   “Up and Up” Men’s Bible Class 1937-1938

Folder 21.3 Dr. Timothy Lehman Reception, June 30 1960

Folder 21.4 St. Paul’s Reformed Church Programs, 1933-1980

Folder 21.5 St. Paul’s Reformed Church Account Book, 1930-1934

Folder 21.6 Partial Transcription German Reformed Church Minutes, ca. 1857

Folder 21.7 Documents from Inside 19th Century Minutes of German Reformed Church, 1876

Folder 21.8 Documents from Inside the Mite Society Minute Book, 1922-1938

 

Box 22: Stack 6, Shelf 5    

Church Register, 1923-1933

Church Register, 1935-1943

Minutes of the Mite Society of the Edinburg German Reformed Church, 1922-1938

19th Century Joint Consistory Minutes of the German Reformed Church, 1876

German Reformed Church Minutes beginning 1857

Edinburg German Reformed Church Mite Society Ledger, 1885

Mite Society Ledger German Reformed Church, Edinburg Virginia, 1869-1899

 

Series IX: L.D. Clinedinst

 

Box 23: Stack 6, Shelf 4    

Folder 23.1 History of the Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg, ca. 1984

Folder 23.2 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checkbook and Stubs, 1912-1913

Folder 23.3 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checkbook and Stubs, 1914-1915

Folder 23.4 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checkbook and Stubs, 1908

Folder 23.5 L. D. Clinedinst Checkbook and Stubs, 1930-1931

Folder 23.6 L. D. Clinedinst Checkbook and Stubs, 1915-1916

Folder 23.7 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checkbook and Stubs, 1917-1919

Folder 23.8 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checkbook and Stubs, 1909 – 1916

Folder 23.9 L. D. Clinedinst Deposit book, ca. 1890

Folder 23.10 L. D. Clinedinst Checkbook and Stubs, 1914-1916

Folder 23.11 Letter to L. D. Clinedinst from Joseph Wisman, April 19, 1897

Folder 23.12 Survey of Land Sold by D. D. Folz to L. D. Clinedinst, Edinburg Virginia, January 30, 1917

Folder 23.13 L. D. Clinedinst Financial Documents, 1890-1931

Folder 23.14 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Deposit Slips, 1907

Folder 23.15 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1908

Folder 23.16 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1910

Folder 23.17 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1911

Folder 23.18 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1912

Folder 23.19 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1913

Folder 23.20 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1914

Folder 23.21 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1915

Folder 23.22 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1916

Folder 23.23 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1917

Folder 23.24 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1918

Folder 23.25 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1919

Folder 23.26 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1920

Folder 23.27 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1922

Folder 23.28 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1923

Folder 23.29 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1924

Folder 23.30 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1925

Folder 23.31 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1926

Folder 23.32 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1927

Folder 23.33 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1928

Folder 23.34 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1929

Folder 23.35 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1930-1935

Folder 23.36 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1906-1907

Folder 23.37 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1938-1939

Folder 23.38 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1921-1922

Folder 23.39 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1934-1936

Folder 23.40 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1929-1930

Folder 23.41 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1930-1931

Folder 23.42 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1936-1938

Folder 23.43 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1939-1940

Folder 23.44 L. D. Clinedinst Checks, 1912-1934

Folder 23.45 L. D. Clinedinst Financial Papers, Undated

Folder 23.46 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Checks, 1919-1920

Folder 23.47 L. D. Clinedinst Farmer’s Bank of Edinburg Overdrawn Notice, 1943

 

Series X: Crim

 

Box 24: Stack 6, Shelf 4    

Folder 24.1 Genealogical Research Information Compiled by Virginia Crim, 1937-ca.1960

Folder 24.2 Grubb Family, Undated

Folder 24.3 Newlin Family, ca. 1963

Folder 24.4 Dickinson/Crim Genealogy Correspondence, 1963

Folder 24.5 Dickinson/Crim Genealogy, 1963-1968

Folder 24.6 Crim Genealogy, 1963-1968

 

OVERSIZE

Oversize Folder 29 Crim Family Trees, undated Stack 6, Shelf 7

 

Series XI: Scrapbooks

 

Box 25: Stack 6, Shelf 5

Portraits Pages from Newspapers Past, Supplements to Northern Virginia Daily, Free Press, and the Shenandoah Valley Herald, Shenandoah County Fair Supplements, 1987-1996

Scrapbook of Josephine Hutcheson Magnifico, 1947-1951

 

Box 26: Stack 6, Shelf 5

Along the Valley Pike, New Market, Orkney Springs, Readus, Rinderton, St. Luke,             Saumsville, Strasburg, Toms Brook, Woodstock, and Zepp

 

Box 27: Stack 6, Shelf 6

Along the Valley Pike, Bowman’s Crossing, Broadway-Timberville, Calvary, Columbia Furnace, Conicville, Cootes Store, Edinburg, Forestville, Fort Valley, Hamburg, Jerome, Lantz Mills, Maurertown, Mount Calvary, Mount Clifton, Mount Jackson, and Mount Olive

 

Series XII: Frakturs

               

Box 28: Stack 6, Shelf 6

German Tauffchein, Framed

German Tauffchein

Copies of Frakturs, 1835

 

Series XIII: Valley Bottling Company

 

Box 29: Stack 6, Shelf 7

J.C. Hutcheson Account Book, 1941

Valley Bottling Works Financial Book, 1931

Edinburg Virginia Insurance Policies, 1930-1931

J.C. Hutcheson and Shenandoah Valley Special Tours America Journal, 1927

Valley Bottling Works Ledger, ca. 1930

 

Series XIV: School Registers

 

Box 30: Stack 6, Shelf 7

Register School Number 25, ca. 1900

Ashby District School Register, 1901

Mt. Clifton School Register, 1902

 

Series XV: Postcards Sent to Local Families

 

Volume I: Stack 6, Shelf 4