Sylvester A. Polk's Honorable Discharge
Military discharges - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Polk, Sylvester A.
Recording & registration - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Photograph of the form used to honorably discharge Private Sylvester A. Polk of Conicville, Virginia. He was born on July 1, 1920, and served in the U.S. Army in both Normandy and the Ardennes during WWII.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
Undated
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002373
William Lutz
Lutz, William
Soldiers - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
William "Bill" Lutz pictured in his U.S. Army uniform. Mr. Lutz was from Conicville. He died in a car wreck at Lantz Mills in about 1956 or 1957.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
Undated
Identified by Doug Dellinger who knew the subject.
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001939
Fannie (Long) Coffman
Coffman, Fannie Luella Long (1877-1955)
Photograph of Fannie Luella (Long) Coffman seated on a chair in the studio.
Fannie was born in the Conicville area of Shenandoah County. The specific place noted on her birth registration was “near Cabin Hill”. Her parents were John Jackson (1834-1910) and Elizabeth Ann (Fry) (1847-1898) Long. Her father was a carpenter at the time of her birth.
She married Levi Edward Coffman (1868-1931), a farmer, in 1896. He was the son of Levi A. and Barbara E (Long) Coffman, a farming couple.
Fannie and Edward stayed in the Ashby District and farmed. They had at least seven children together although two of them died as young children. Both Fannie and her husband are buried together in Hamburg.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
Undated
Identified by subject's granddaughter, Betty Wisman.
Additional biographical information was compiled from public sources.
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001659
Conicville School Building
Schools - Virginia - Conicville
Conicville (Va)
Side view of the school building in Conicville.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
Undated
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001199
Conicville School
Schools - Virginia - Shenandoah County
School building beside a dirt road and with basketball hoop visible on the right. The word, "Conicville" was written on the glass plate.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
Undated
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001179
Three Women
Miller, Lizzie Funkhouser
Mumaw, Robbie Fletcher
Delawder, Fanny Ryman
Left to right: Lizzie Funkhouser (later, Miller), Robbie Fletcher (later, Mumaw), and Fanny Ryman (later, Delawder). These three women from the Conicville area. Lizzie later went to work in Washington in April 1924.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
ca 1925 (One copy of the picture has "Jan 1925" noted on the back, however, one of the subjects pictured, Lizzie Funkhouser Miller, later believed it had been taken a couple of years earlier.)
Labelled "Jan 1925" on box of plates.
Identified by Diane Miller Warren, daughter of one of the subjects. She has the same photograph at her home.
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Lizzie Funkhouser Miller appears in Morrison Studio Collection images 001111 and 001486.
001111
First and Second Grade, Conicville School
Conicville (Va)
Public Schools-Virginia-Conicville
Shenandoah County Public Schools (Va)
Weatherholtz, Roy
Funkhouser, Custis
Showman, Ray
Mumaw, Hilda Foltz
Helsley, Ruth
Segar, Eliza Lindamood
Dellinger, Martha Brinker
Burkholder, Helen Dellinger
Painter, Mildred Dellinger
Payne
Showman, Jr.
Miller, Howard
Dellinger, Ruby Wolfe
Schaffer, Florence Hansberger
Wolfe, Charles
Hawkins, Ruby Dellinger
Jordan, Robert
Andrick, Hope
Eastep, Rudy Lutz
Baker, Preston
Photograph showing the first and second grade class for the Conicville School in 1931. Pictured are, from left to right:
Top Row: Roy Weatherholtz, Custis Funkhouser, Roy Showman, Hilda Funkhouser, Ruth Helsley, Eliza Lindamood Sager, Martha Brinker Dellinger
Middle Row: Helen Dellinger Burkholder, Mildred Dellinger Painter, Miss Payne, Jr. Showman, Howard Miller, Ruby Wolfe Dellinger, Florence Hansberger Scheffer
Bottom Row:
Charles Wolfe, Ruby Dellinger Hawkins, Robert Jordan, Hope Andrick, Ruby Lutz Eastep, Preston Baker
Unknown
Shenandoah County Library
1931
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Photograph
18-0904-004
Ora Dodson
Dodson, Ora
Photograph showing Ora Dodson of Conicville Virginia.
Shenandoah Valley-Herald
Shenandoah Valley-Herald Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia.
Shenandoah County Library
1978
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Betty Showman
Showman, Betty
Conicville (Va)
If you had attended a community event in the 70s, or 80s you might have found Betty Showman there, dressed as the popular TV character Minnie Pearl.
A resident of Conicville, Betty began performing as Minnie in 1963. She took her act to various firehalls, church groups, nursing homes, community clubs, and other charitable groups
Besides performing, Betty helped her husband Bill operate their dairy farm which was founded in 1955. Her duties included sanitizing the dairy at 4:45AM and cleaning the barn after milking was complete. She also taught Sunday School at the Conicville United Church of Christ, was an expert seamstress, 4-H leader and active member of the Conicville Volunteer Fire Department’s auxiliary.
Shenandoah Valley Herald Bound Copy Collection
Shenandoah County Library
1979
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Conicville 4-H Display
Conicville 4-H Club (Va)
Photograph taken by William Hoyle Garber showing the Conicville 4-H Display at the Shenandoah County Fair.
William Hoyle Garber
Hoyle Garber Collection, Mt. Jackson Museum
Shenandoah County Library
Undated
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Series XI: Identified Scenes
hg0261
Letter, Mary R. Dellinger to Noah Dellinger
Dellinger, Mary
Dellinger, Noah
Conicville (Va)
U.S. Civil War
December 17 (1862)
Shenandoah County
Dear brother I seat my self to drop you a few line to let you no that we are all well at present and hope that when these few lines come to hand they may find you in the Same state of health. They say that there can’t be none detailed to work at the furnace and if you and if you can get a Substitute you should get one and don’t matter what price for we cant get a long a tall sence James is gone he started a to the army last Monday I expect you saw him William is a stilling(?) now. Tomorrow Lisa is a going to burther tomorrow. Was over at the butcherin at bowman. I saw _____ bowman he looked good. Turn over.
Try an come home if you can write if you see James tell him to try and come home for I expect he will break take his leg again an if you cant get no substitute write and let us no and we will try and get one. William C. _ he has a sore foot. He cant get about. So much for that I must stop for I don’t know whether you can read this or not for I didn’t write for a year and you must guess at it so I must stop for this time but remain you sister until death. Don’t show this to no body.
Mary R. Dellinger to Mr. noah Dellinger. Write soon
Mary R. Dellinger Helsley
Dellinger Civil War Letter Collection
Shenandoah County Library
December 17, 1862
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"Greetings From Conicville VA"
Conicville (Va)
Postcard with a greeting from Conicville Virginia.
Herb Parker Postcard Collection
Shenandoah County Library
1910
Not to be republished without permission
Image
English
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