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Mary and Ruth Hollingsworth, posed together, outside a house.

We do not know which sister is which.

Their parents were Alfred Reese and Mary (Hockman) Hollingsworth.

Ruth and Mary Hollingsworth posed together outside of a house.

We do not know which sister is which.

Their parents were Alfred Reese and Mary (Hockman) Hollingsworth.

Portrait photograph of Durus Calvin Hottel

At the time of this photograph Duruss Hottle was a member of the Shenandoah County Board of Supervisors.

Stanley Hollar shown with his family, his wife, Dora (Hottel) Hollar and their daughter, Elsie Hollar.

The name, "Hollar", is written on the glass plate.

Anna Katharine (Hottel) Benchoff as a young woman.

Anna Katharine was the daughter of Milton Hockman and Laura Hottel of Woodstock.

She married Guy Anderson Benchoff in 1924, and the couple worked and taught at Massanutten Military Academy…

Portrait photograph of Anna Katharine (Hottel) Benchoff as a young woman.

Anna Katharine was the daughter of Milton Hockman and Laura Hottel of Woodstock.

She married Guy Anderson Benchoff in 1924, and the couple worked and taught at…

Family photograph showing Ann (Dirting) Hottel (left), Thomas Hottel Sr. (rear), Ida Belle (Hottel) Fravel (right) and Charles Monroe Fravel (infant).

These individuals are four generations of a single family with Ann being the mother of Ida who…

Photograph of Ida Fravel (left), Charles Monroe Fravel (infant), Thomas Hottel Sr. (rear) and Ann (Dirting) Hottel (right),

The individuals are four generations of a single family with Ann being the mother of Ida who is the mother of Thomas who…

Portrait of Virginia Spiker Hottel as a young woman.

It is likely the photograph was taken about the time she graduated from Toms Brook High School.

Virginia was born in Maurertown to Sydney and Flossie (Borden) Spiker.

She became a nurse…

Durus Calvin Hottel as a young man standing beside a wicker chair in the studio.

His parents were Calvin and Rebecca (Beydler) Hottel.
Durus lived in the Zion Church area, just east of Maurertown. He was a farmer and served on the Shenandoah…

Two women wearing winter coats and large hats are posed together.

The younger woman on the right has been identified as Anna Katharine (Hottel) Benchoff. The other woman is unidentiifed.

Anna Katharine was the daughter of Milton Hockman and…

Photograph of James Franklin Wetzel as a boy, posed cheek-to-cheek with his mother, Drucilla (Hottel) Wetzel.

James lived in Woodstock as a boy, but spent his later years in Edinburg. He finished high school and served in the U.S. Army during WWII…

Photograph of Earl and Charlotte Rinker posed in studio with their baby son, Randolph. Mr. Rinker is wearing his U.S. Army uniform.

In addition to serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, Mr. Rinker worked for Sealtest Foods for 20 years.…

Photograph of (l to r) Sadie B. (Hottel) Kingree and Frances Kirby.

Sadie was born in Shenandoah County and was a daughter of the late Daniel and Joanna Wolverton Hottel and married, for a time, to Eugene Kingree. She was a member of Saumsville…

Photo of three separate images showing different people.

The girl in the middle photograph has been identified as Gladys Evangeline (Hottel) Fravel.

Gladys was the daughter of John Franklin (1868-1941), a farmer, and Cora Virginia (Wisman)…

Portrait of Charles Fravel with his wife, Mabel.

Charles grew up in Woodstock, the son of Thomas Hottel Fravel (1890-1949) and Cary (Funkhouser) (1881-1945) Fravel.

In 1940, he worked as an assistant to mortician, V.L. Dellinger. When he…

Portrait of Eva (Sine) Hottel as a young woman with her hair pulled up.

Eva was the daughter of Wilbur F. (1866-1926) and Ida Adelia (Wright) (1866-1936) Sine. She was the oldest of seven children born in the Johnston District of Shenandoah…

Portrait photograph Anna Katharine (Hottel) Benchoff of Woodstock wearing a hat and fur coat.

Photograph of three generations: Ann (Dirting) Hottel (front right), her daughter, Effa Lee (Hottel) Will (front left), and her granddaughter, Nellie R. (Will) Reid (middle).

Effa Will and her daughter Nellie R. Will Reid lived in Grand Junction…

Large group of people assembled for a reunion picnic at what is now the Hottel-Keller Memorial site off Back Road near Mt. Olive. The words, "Hottel-Keller Memorial Association" and the date, "Aug. 23rd, 1934" appear on the glass plate.

Photograph of Mildred Hottel, of Woodstock, holding an eagle and shotgun.

She killed the eagle with an H & R Shotgun. Hugh Morrison, Jr. sent a copy of this photograph to H & R for an advertisement, but the co-president, Edwin Harrington, sent…

Oscar Hottel farm located 2 miles east of Woodstock near Reservoir Road.

Pictured left to right are: Allie Feagans Hottel, her daughter Helen Hottel Fahnestock, Allie's husband Charles Hottel, and their son, W. Jacob Hottel.

Some of the…

Portrait of Nan Roller Golliday (1889-1972), daughter of William Edgar and Emma Jane (Hottel) Roller. She married Ernest Earl Golladay (1888-1958) in December 1912. When she died, she left behind a daughter, Jane Swartz, and a son, Ernest R.…

Portrait of Elsie Orndorff who married Reese Hottel.

Photograph of Dorothy (McWilliams) Sheetz, of Toms Brook, as a young woman.

Her parents were Samuel David and Ella May (Hottel) McWilliams.

Dorothy married Granville Ray Sheetz in December 1941, not long after this photograph was taken.
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