Shenandoah County Library Archives

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Photograph of the children born to James Knox Polk Hoover, a civil war veteran who was wounded twice during his cavalry service, once at Rudes Hill and again at Narrow Passage.

Identified are, from left to right:

(back row) Florence (Hoover)…

Lois (Hoover) Wilkins as a young woman standing beside a wicker chair.

Her parents were George James and Sarah C. (Gochenour) Hoover. Her brother was Emmert Lee Hoover. She was from rural Woodstock.

Lois Hoover married Paul W. Wilkins, Sr., in…

Alger Smoot in a bow tie and glasses, is seated beside his daughter, V. Geraldine "Gerry" (Smoot) Eagle. His wife, Myrtle May (Hoover) Smoot is standing behind them.

Alger and Myrtle married in December 1921.

This was a family photograph.

Photograph of Harry W. Hoover standing by a bench and wearing a suit and tie with a high, starched collar.

His wife was Fannie Louise (Clark) Hoover (1894-1959). The couple is buried together in Woodstock.

Portrait photograph of Homer Joseph Hoover wearing a double breasted suit and tie with a starched collar.

His parents were James Knox Polk Hoover and his second wife, Catherine (Miller) Hoover.

Homer was a farmer from rural Edinburg. He never…

Portrait photograph of James Knox Polk Hoover with a mustache and beard in his later years.

His parents were Abraham and Rebecca (Marshall) Hoover.

He was a veteran of the U.S. Civil War having fought with the Confederate side. One record…

Photograph of the Joseph Hoover family from Woodstock.

Pictured are: Joseph Ray Hoover, Sr., his son, Joseph "Buddy" Hoover, Jr., daughter Dorothy Ann (Hoover) Price, and his wife, Dorothy (Koontz) Hoover.

Raymon Walter Tamkin with his wife, Edna (Hoover) Tamkin, shown seated with their young son, Donald, posed between them.

Raymon and Edna are most remembered as the former owners of Artz Hardware on W. King Street in Strasburg.

Edna was born in…

Raymon Walter Tamkin, standing, with his wife, Edna (Hoover) Tamkin and young son, Donald, posed beside him.

Raymon and Edna are most remembered as the former owners of Artz Hardware on W. King Street in Strasburg.

Edna was born in Woodstock,…

Photograph of five Stultz sisters, standing together.

Identified (l to r) are: Edna (Stultz) Oliver, Olive (Stultz) Fravel, Ethel (Stultz) Hoover, Georgia (Stultz) Gochenour, and Lena (Stultz) Bubb.

Their parents were Luther Abbot (1859-1922)…

Harry Reedy, seated, with his wife, Florence Hoover Reedy, standing beside him.

Florence was the daughter of James Knox Polk Hoover (1845-1907) and Catherine (Miller) Hoover (1858-1915).

Florence was the first wife of Harry Reedy. She died…

Ethel (Stultz) Hoover seated on a bench and holding a baby in her arms.

The baby is not Ethel's and we do not know its name.

Ethel was from the St. Luke area of Shenandoah County. Her parents were Luther Abbot (1859-1922) and Minerva Frances…

Portrait photograph of Floyd "Frog" Hoover as a young man wearing a tie.

He was a lifelong Shenandoah County resident from rural Woodstock.

Floyd was the youngest of four children born to Jacob Otis and Nellie Catherine (Miller) Hoover, a…

Portrait photograph of Rachel (Hoover) Burner as a young woman. She is wearing a corsage on her dress.

Photograph of Janet Cave Hoover as a child sitting on the edge of a chair.

Born in Fort Valley, Janet was the daughter of Clifton Lee and Francis Marie "Fannie" (Burner) Cave.

Her first husband was Gerald Allen Stultz. She married him him in…

Two separate portrait photographs of Leah (Hoover) McDorman with short, curled hair and wearing a polka-dotted dress.

Leah was the daughter of Charles Monroe and Mary Belle (Richard) Hoover.

She lived in Strasburg when she married Kenneth…

Photograph of four Wisman siblings.

Pictured are Everett Wisman (left). Mary A. "Snookie" Wisman (on chair, right), Lois Wisman and Mary Wisman.

It is uncertain which of the latter two sisters are which in the image.

The name, "Wisman",…

Photograph of Ethel (Stultz) Hoover as a young woman.

Ethel was from the St. Luke area of Shenandoah County. Her parents were Luther Abbot (1859-1922) and Minerva Frances (Wolverton) (1859-1922) Stultz.

She married Earl Belew Hoover…

Photograph of Florence (Hoover) Reedy as a young woman.

Florence was the daughter of James H. and Catherine (MIller) Hoover, a farming couple from the Edinburg area of the County.

She married Harry Franklin Reedy (1899-1976) in 1922. He lived…

Peggy Lee Hamilton as a young woman. From Woodstock, she was the daughter of Emmert L. and Audrey F. (Ritenour) Hoover.

In 1953, she was a 21-year old stenographer living in Woodstock when she married Thomas Neil Hamilton (1929-2016) who was in…

Portrait photograph of Edna V. (Hoover) Tamkin as a young woman.

Edna and her husband are most remembered as the former owners of Artz Hardware on W. King Street in Strasburg.

Edna was born in Woodstock, to Charles Luther (1866-1942) and Sarah…

Portrait of Pauline Mae Riffey Hammond. She was the daughter of James Eugene and Ollie (Hoover) Riffey. Born in Woodstock, she married David l. Hammond and had a son, David E. Hammond, when she died in Berryville, Virginia. She was buried in Sunset…

Portrait of Stanley Lockwood Sine as a young Corporal wearing his U.S. Army uniform.

Stanley was born in Woodstock, the son of Mathew Stanley Quay (1894-1974) and Mary Rebecca (Burnshire) (1893-1990) Sine. His father was a truck driver.…

Photograph of the Hoover family.

Pictured are George James Hoover (seated, left), Emmert Hoover (standing, front), Zelia Hoover (child, standing middle), and Sara Catherine Hoover (seated, right).

The family lived west of Woodstock on what…

Photograph of Shenandoah Valley Academy's Junior Class in 1933.

The pennant being held up in the foreground says "Juniors 1933". The school letters, "SVA", are also visible.

The individuals are, from left to right:

Row 1:
Harriet Fisher,…
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