Unidentified cadet wearing his school's uniform.
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
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Photo of a portrait photograph of an unidentified man and woman posed together. Probably, this was a husband and wife.
Two unidentified children: a boy in a sailor-themed outfit and an older girl in a dress with a bow in her hair. Probably, these were siblings.
These two children appear in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 013087, 013088, and 013100.
Two unidentified children: a young boy in a sailor-themed outfit and an older girl with a bow in her hair. Probably, these were siblings.
Unidentified toddler in shoes and short pants seated on a table.
Same child appears in 013089 and 013090.
Unidentified young boy wearing shoes and short pants is seated on a table.
Same boy appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 013089 and 013090.
Nelson, Sarah Bird (Williams) (1924-2023)
Dodd, Rebecca Paxton (Williams) Ehrlich (ca 1925-2000)
Portrait of six siblings, all of whom have been identified. Standing, (l to r): Sarah (Williams) Nelson, Rebecca Williams, John P. Williams; Seated (l to r): Philip Williams, Jr., William T. Williams, and Margaret P. Williams. These were the children of Philip (1888-1942) and Rebecca Crenshaw (Paxton) (1891-1986) Williams. He was a lawyer and had a private practice. He and his family lived in Woodstock. Philip Williams, Jr. was a student at Washington & Lee University in Lexington when he registered for the WWII draft. He enlisted in the Navy in 1942. After his military service, he became a Professor of English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He died unexpectedly there at the young age of 36 years. Rebecca Paxton Williams married William V. Ehrlich, Sr. (1922-1982), and lived in Delaware with him. They parted ways, however, and in 1964, she was a teacher at the Gibbs School of Georgetown when she married for the second time. Her second husband was Ronald Frederick Dodd, who worked at “Dodd Carey Funeral Home”. She died in Georgetown, Delaware. John received his appointment as an Ensign in the U.S. Navy in July 1941, during WWII, and was wounded in action shortly afterwards while stationed overseas. It’s possible this photograph was taken just before he shipped out. In 1955, Lieutenant John Williams was still in the Navy and stationed in Madrid, Spain. He retired as a Commander and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. In 1946, Margaret Paxton Williams lived in Washington D.C. and married John Gibbons Adams (1912-2003) a lawyer raised in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. They stayed in Washington for fifty years as her husband rose to prominence after he publicly questioned Senator McCarthy’s actions against the U.S. Army. Adams recalled the experience in his 1983 memoirs "Without Precedent: The Story of the Death of McCarthyism." They retired to Texas in 1996. They had a daughter, Rebecca (Adams) Cavner. The 1950 census found William T. Williams living in a student dormitory at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. A year later, he was pictured in the 1951 UVA yearbook with his fellow Gamma Delta fraternity brothers. After college, he joined the Army and was stationed as a Private at Fort Hauchuca, Arizona. Sarah graduated from Longwood College and got her Master's in Nutrition from Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI), now known as Virginia Tech. She joined the Women's Army Corps (WAC), part of the U.S. Army, as a nutritionist and retired as Lieutenant Colonel. She married Benjamin Nelson in Washington, D.C., in 1967. After retirement, they winters at their home in Florida, and summers in Woodstock.
Identified in 2010 by Sarah (Williams) Nelson who was one of the siblings pictured.
Sarah Bird (Williams) Nelson appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 004942, 013091, and 016507.
Rebecca Paxton (Williams) Ehrlich Dodd appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 004942, 013091, and 016507.
John P. Williams appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 004942, 012959, 013091, and 016507.
Philip Williams, Jr. appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 004942, 012959, 013091, and 016507.
Margaret Paxton Williams appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 004942, 012959, 013091, and 016507.
William Twyman Williams appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 004942, 013091, and 016507.
Photograph of Trilby (Hollar) Daggett as a girl in her drum majorette uniform. Trilby was the daughter of Cecil E. and Winona Louise (Lantz) Hollar. She grew up in Lantz Mills. She was a majorette in high school and with the Lantz Mills Band. Her first husband was Martin Bernard Ketola whom she married in 1951. That marriage did not last. In 1955, she married Robert E. Daggett (1929-1996) but that marriage also ended in divorce. Trilby is buried with her parents in Edinburg, Virginia.
No ID form. Name was written in the margin of the paper copy.
Additional biographical information was compiled from public sources.
Trilby (Hollar) Daggett appears in Morrison Studio Collection images 005109, 006627, 006826, 013092, and 029147.
Kibler, Dorothy Catherine Rutz (1918-2020)
Portrait photograph of Melvin Kibler, Sr. with his wife, Dorothy C. (Rutz) Kibler, beside him.
Identified in 2006 by Phyllis Wright, who remembered that "Mr. Kibler built our house".
Melvin Kibler appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 013093 and 005050.
Dorothy C. (Rutz) Kibler appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 005050, 013093, 017667, and 022010.
Members of an unidentified family posed together.
Unidentified young child seated on a chair.
Portrait photograph of an unidentified woman with short hair and wearing a bead necklace.
Same woman appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 013096 and 013097.
Portrait photograph of an unidentified young man wearing a suit and tie.
Portrait photograph of an unidentified woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat with netting and faux leaves on the top of it.
Two unidentified children: a girl with bangs and a bow in her hair and a boy wearing a sailor-themed suit. Probably, these were siblings.
Same two children appear in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 013087, 013088, and 013100.
Rooms and spaces - Virginia - Shenandoah County
Damaged image of an unidentified dining hall or commercial dining facility.
Portrait photograph of an unidentified cadet wearing his school's uniform.
Massanutten Military Academy (Woodstock, Shenandoah County, Va.)
Portrait photograph of an unidentified Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) cadet wearing his school's uniform.
This unidentified cadet appears in Morrison Studio Collection images 013106 and 013107.
Unidentified Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) cadet standing in his school's uniform replete with overcoat and gloves.