"Crump"
Soldiers - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
The name, "Crump" is written on the glass plate of this image of a soldier taken outdoors.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
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006065
Two Unidentified Young Men
Soldiers - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Military personnel - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Two unidentified men, one standing and one sitting on a bench. The young man standing is wearing a U.S. Army uniform from the WWI era.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
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005988
Unidentified U.S. Army Soldier
Military personnel - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Soldiers - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Portrait of an unidentified young man wearing his U.S. Army uniform.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
Labelled "June 1945" on box of plates.
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Same subject as in Morrison Photo #01981.
005786
Army Soldier
Soldiers - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Unidentified man seated and wearing a U.S. Army uniform.
It appears the photographer has erased a woman standing beside him.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
Labelled "Nov 1942" on box of plates.
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Same man appears in Morrison Studio Collection images 011132 and 011134.
011132
WWI Soldier
Military personnel - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Soldiers - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Photograph of an unidentified young man standing in his U.S. Army uniform from the WWI era.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
Labelled "Aug 1919" on box of plates.
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005428
WWI Soldier
Military personnel - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Soldiers - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Unidentified young man wearing a U.S. Army uniform from the WWI era.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
Labelled "Dec 1919" on box of plates.
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005415
U.S. Army Soldier
Soldiers - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Portrait of an unidentified Army soldier wearing his uniform.
The patch on his shoulder and the medals indicate he was a Private assigned to an Anti-Aircraft unit.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
Labelled "June 1945" on box of plates.
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010731
George M. Miller
Miller, George Martin (1916-2010)
Soldiers - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Portrait of George Martin Miller in his U.S. Army uniform.
George was born in Jerome to Pius Martin (1876-1952) and Rebecca Frances (Nesselrodt) (1885-1969) Miller, a farming couple.
He married in April 1937 in Mt. Jackson. His bride was 16-year old Irene Pauline Spitler (1920-2004). She was the daughter of Mathias C. (1882-1949) and Mamie May (Whitmer) (1904-1983) Spitler. At that time, George was 21 years old and farmed in Jerome, probably on his father’s farm.
When he registered for the WWII draft, he worked for William B. Clark at Bird Haven Farm near Basye, Virginia. The wood-working factory stood on land owned by Mr. Clark and provided many local residents with income during the years it operated.
George served in the U.S. Army and by 1950, he had returned to the area. The census found both George and his wife, Irene, living in the Ashby District. Both were employed at a wood-crafting factory, probably Bird Haven Farm.
The couple had two daughters together: Sandra (Miller) Rinker and Betty Ann (Miller) Meadors.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
Labelled "June 1945" on box of plates.
Recognized by Joanne Lockhart when she saw an advertisement in the newspaper for a 90th birthday card shower being thrown for him by his friends and family. The ad included a photograph of him.
Biographical information was compiled from public records.
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Same subject as in Morrison Photo 21949.
010728
Samuel Lorenzo Spiggle
Spiggle, Samuel Lorenzo (1895-1960)
Soldiers - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Photograph of Samuel Lorenzo Spiggle as a young man in his U.S. Army uniform and standing beside a pennant that says, "Camp Lee".
He was from Edinburg, the son of Turner W. and Annie (Grim) Spiggle.
In 1924, after his military service, Samuel married a woman from Conicville, Fleta May Bowers (1906-2002). They raised a large family together that included these children: Shirley, Anna, Kathleen, Judy, Sue, Bud, Claude, Robert and Helen.
Both he and his wife were buried in Union Forge.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
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Identified by Kathaleen (Spiggle) Clem, a daughter of the subject, who had a similar photograph at her home.
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004921
WWII U.S. A.A.F. Lieutenant
Military personnel - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Portrait of an unidentified U.S. Army Air Force Lieutenant wearing his WWII-era uniform.
His hat shows the "50 mission crush", a telltale sign of a missing stiffener.
Normally, this cap had stiffeners – a support piece behind the cap device and a wire around the inside top perimeter to maintain the cap's round shape. However, since pilots wore headsets over their caps during flights, they would remove the wire stiffener to make headset wear more comfortable, causing the sides of the caps to become crushed.
Eventually, the caps retained their floppy "crushed" look, giving the pilot who wore it the look of a seasoned veteran, like in this photograph.
The crush cap identified its wearer as an experienced pro, and was as much a part of his identity as his leather flight jacket.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
WWII
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Information about "crush caps" came from Wikipedia.
004861
Army Soldier
Soldiers - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Unidentified young soldier wearing a U.S. Army uniform from the WWI era.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
Labelled "May 1917" on box of plates.
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010003
Soldier and His Mother
Soldiers - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Military personnel - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Photo of a framed photograph of an unidentified U.S. Army soldier with a woman standing behind him who was probably his mother.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
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004637
U.S. Army Soldier
Soldiers - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Military personnel - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Portrait of an unidentified young man in his U.S. Army uniform. His rank was Private First Class.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
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004621
Soldier and Family
Military personnel - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Soldiers - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Unidentified young man wearing a U.S. Army uniform and seated with an unidentified child and woman beside him.
Probably, this is a family portrait.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
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004521
Kolbe Coffman
Coffman, Kolbe
Soldiers - United States
Portrait of young Kolbe Coffman in his Army uniform with an Anti-Aircraft Command insignia visible.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
c. 1943
Subject identified by Sarah W. Nelson, a school friend.
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Kolbe Coffman appears in Morrison Studio images 003480 and 004452.
004452
Honorable Discharge Form of Pvt. John Davis
Davis, John N.
Recording & registration - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Military discharges - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Photograph of the honorable discharge record for Private John N. Davis of Woodstock. He was a utility repairman in the Army from 1944 to 1945 before being discharged due to medical reasons.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
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004448
Army Air Force Soldier
Military personnel - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Portrait of an unidentified man wearing his U.S. Army uniform. The patch on his shoulder indicates he was part of the Army Air Force.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
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004443
U.S. Army Soldier
Soldiers - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Military personnel - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Portrait of an unidentified young man wearing a U.S. Army uniform that indicates he was part of the 11th Armored Division.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
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004440
U.S. Army Soldier
Soldiers - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Military personnel - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Unidentified young man wearing a U.S. Army uniform.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
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004439
"Harry Edmunson"
Soldiers - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Edmonson, William Harrison "Harry" (1896-1993)
The name “Harry Edmunson” is written on the glass plate of this image of a young man standing in his U.S. Army uniform from the WWI era.
Upon further research, it is likely this was a photograph of William Harrison “Harry” Edmonson, born in Woodstock to Charles Henry (1862-1897) and Rebecca "Bettie" Elizabeth (Copp) (1860-1944) Edmonson.
He served in the U.S. Army as a Private during World War I.
He attended Bridgewater College and graduated from Virginia Tech. He taught agriculture at Buckingham and New Hope high schools before moving to Bridgewater in 1932. He was a milk tester and soil conservationist for the Virginia Department of Soil and Conservation in Shenandoah Valley and James River Valley for 20 years, serving as its director for a number of years.
He married Anna Frances Thomas (1896-1982) in 1923. He is survived by two daughters, Gene Elizabeth Edmonson and Eloise Rebecca Edmonson; and one son, William Harrison Edmonson, Jr.
Morrison Studio
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Shenandoah County Library
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Additional biographical information was extracted from subject’s obituary uploaded to the Find-A-Grave website. The article was originally published in the Daily News-Record, Harrisonburg, Va., Friday, May 21,1993.
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004356
Soldier in U.S. Army Uniform
Military personnel - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Soldiers - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Photograph of a picture of an unidentified young man in a WWII-era U.S. Army uniform holding a rifle upright. There are trees and a military building visible in the background.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
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004239
WWI Soldier
Soldiers - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Photo of a photograph taken in front of a building of an unidentified U.S. Army soldier standing at attention with his service weapon.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
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004149
Army Discharge of Calvin Golliday
Golliday, Calvin B.
Recording & registration - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Military personnel - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Photograph of the Honorable Discharge form for Calvin B. Golliday, formerly a truck driver in Mt. Jackson. S/Sgt. Golliday earned a Purple Heart and 3 Bronze Stars for his service as a "Flight Maintenance Gunner" during World War II. The discharge also mentioned his face and hands were burned.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
ca 1945
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004133
Soldier Beside Fenced Area
Soldiers - United States - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Photo of a photograph of an unidentified soldier standing outside a fenced area. Vintage vehicles are visible behind him.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
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004130
Smiling Soldier
Soldiers - United States - Virginia, Shenandoah County
Photo of a photograph of an unidentified man wearing a U.S. Army uniform and smiling at the camera.
Morrison Studio
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Shenandoah County Library
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004129