Shenandoah County Library Archives

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Photo of Reverend Polk superimposed onto a photo of Mt. Zion Methodist Church.

The church was located at the intersection of Church and Locust Streets in Woodstock, until it was demolished in 1921 to build a bigger church of the same name. It is…

Photo of a newspaper clipping showing picture of Reverend Levi Keller who was a pastor from 1850 to 1860, and 1867 to 1871.

Photograph of a newspaper picture of the Reverend Peter Miller who was a Pastor from 1871 to 1879 in Shenandoah County.

Photograph of a newspaper picture of Reverend J.A. Snyder, D.D., who was a pastor from 1860 to 1885.

Photograph of a newspaper picture of Reverend J.F. Campbell, D.D. who was a pastor from 1844 to 1849.

Photograph of Reverent Freeland wearing her religious robes and standing by an open book.

She was identified as a deaconess who would conduct revival services at Mt. Zion Methodist Church in Woodstock, Virginia, and other local African American…

Photograph of L.L. Smith.

Smith was a Lutheran Minister, Doctor of Divinity, and minister at various churches in Shenandoah County during the first decade of the 20th century.

Photograph of Rev. J.D. Hamaker standing in the studio and wearing an overcoat.

John David "J.D." Hamaker is most remembered for his decades long service as a Minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Strasburg and, in his early…

Portrait of an unidentified man wearing a clerical collar.

Portrait of Reverend S.W. Kuhns who served in the Emanuel Lutheran Church in Woodstock. He came from Greensboro, North Carolina in 1911.

Portrait of Reverend S.W. Kuhns who served in the Emanuel Lutheran Church in Woodstock. He came from Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1911.

Photograph of William H. Polk standing behind his mother, Anna B. (Arrington) Polk (seated left), his wife, Edna, and his oldest son, William A. Polk. He is most remembered for having worked as a minister in the early 1920’s at the Mt. Zion Methodist…

Portrait of the Wakeman family. Identified are: Frank Leslie Wakeman (seated on the left) with his three children, Hiram Franklin (standing in the back), Joseph Lemuel (standing in front), William Homer (seated on his mother's lap), and his wife,…

Photograph of William T. Brundick in his US Army Chaplain Uniform.

He also served as a Minister at the Woodstock Reformed Church, now UCC, and a member of the Woodstock Fire Department after the war.

He lived on North Main Street and North…

Portrait photograph of Wrightson Samuel Tongue as a young man in a suit and tie.

Wrightson Samuel Tongue was a Methodist Minister, born in Kingston, New York. His parents were N.M. Charles Tongue and Lucy (Felter) Tongue.

While a young…

Photo of a portrait photograph of Reverend William Huddle in his clerical collar.

He served as the pastor of Toms Brook Lutheran Parish from 1925 to 1930, which consisted of St. Mathews and St. Peter's Lutheran churches.

This photograph is a…

Portrait photograph of a Reverend Alfred Shumate in his clerical robes.

Rev. Shumate was the pastor at Toms Brook Lutheran Church (now called St. Peter's Lutheran Church) from 1930-1937.

Photograph of the Reverend T. A. Thomas and his children standing on the porch of a house sometime before 1930.

Reverend Thomas was a pastor at Mt. Zion Methodist Church in Woodstock, Virginia in the 1920s and 1930s. He was born around 1883 and…

Portrait photograph of William H. Polk, who worked as a minister of Mt. Zion Methodist Church in Woodstock, Virginia.

Theopelus A. Thomas, Clergy at Mt. Zion Methodist Church in Woodstock Virginia during the 1930s.

Reverend Thomas was a pastor at Mt. Zion Methodist Church in Woodstock, Virginia in the 1920s and 1930s. He was born around 1883 and immigrated to…

Photograph of Elder William Peters later in his life shown with a full beard and mustache. In this photograph, he is seated on a chair with an open book on his lap.

He is best remembered as having organized and help build the Church of the…

Photograph of Pastor Luther Lee "L.L." Huffman and his wife, Minna Enola (Beam) Huffman.

Pastor Huffman was a Lutheran minister and native of Stanley in Page County, Virginia. He served the Toms Brook Parish of the Tennessee Synod of the Lutheran…

Portrait photograph of Rev. John William Frederick Kitzmeyer.

Rev. John Frederick William Kitzmeyer was a Lutheran Minister who served at Emanuel Lutheran Church in Woodstock, Virginia, from 1905-1907.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1868,…

Damaged photograph of John Frederick William Kitzmeyer wearing the robes of Rev. Peter Muhlenberg, a Revolutionary War era minister from Woodstock who, reportedly, was made famous by his 1776 call to arms and Revolutionary War service.

Rev. John…

John David "J.D." Hamaker is most remembered for his decades long service as a Minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Strasburg and, in his early years, Woodstock.

Originally, J.D. was from Snowville, Pulaski County. He was the…
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