Shenandoah County Library Archives

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Photograph of the Bly family.

Pictured are:

Parents Pearl Bly and Anna "Annie" Bell Ryman (seated).
Vallie Bly (back, right)
Mabel "Bessie" Bly (back left)
Joseph Annanias Bly (seated, left front)
Gertrude Bly (standing, middle…

Photograph of Nevin and Minnie (Ryman) Rosenberger from rural Strasburg.

The couple owned and operated a store on the Back Road called the Nevin Rosenberger Store.

They are buried together in St. Stephens Cemetery, Strasburg Junction.

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 Chester Wright Riffee and his younger sister, Katherine Virginia, as young children. They were the two oldest children of George Henry (1867-1952) and Wilda M. (Boehm) (1877-1939) Riffee.

Chester married Stella Ellen (Ryman)…

Photograph of Eva (Ryman) Cline as a toddler posed in studio.

She was the daughter of Edward and Susan (Huffman) Ryman.

John Ryman, a successful trapper, photographed in the studio with his prize, a bobcat. His sweater, long coat and warm fur hat indicate winter trapping. Notice the trap on the animal's rear leg.

Portrait of Elda Estelle Fravel (1902-1993). She was the daughter of Benjamin Edward and Mary Elizabeth (Ryman) Fravel. Elda lived a long life and never married. She is buried in the cemetery of St. Johns United Church of Christ in Harrisville, west…

Photograph of Joycie (Grandstaff) Wilkins, with her arms folded, beside Mary Anna (Webster) Ryman.

Joycie was the daughter of James Booten and Mildred (Cook) Grandstaff. She grew up with at least four siblings.

She first married Roy Lee Peer…

Photo of a photograph of Irvin Lewis Burner wearing his U.S. Army uniform.

Irvin Lewis (some records say “Louis”) was the son of Azariah “Asa” Weston (1896-1987) and Effie Virginia (Nicholson) (1901-1985) Burner. His father worked at a…

Portrait of Elizabeth (Showman) Ryman as a young woman. Her husband was Lewis F. Ryman. She had two daughters and a son.

Photograph of Elizabeth (Showman) Ryman and her two oldest daughters, Sylvia (standing) and Barbara.

Her husband was Lewis F. Ryman and his name was written of the glass plate of this image.

Everett Lee "Chick" Wisman in his U.S. Army uniform, pictured with his three sisters: Ruth Virginia Wisman Dysart (top right), Mary "Snookie" Wisman Hoover, and Lois Wisman Ryman.

George Cline and Eva Ryman married on June 20, 1934. The bride was 20 years old and this is their wedding photograph. Eva had a sister named Ethel Bowers.

Edward "Eddie" A. Ryman and his wife, Sudie Frances Huffman (1891-1965). Her parents were Charles S. and Eva Foltz Huffman. Eddie's parents were John and Mary Hess Ryman. Eddie and Sudie's children included John Charles Ryman, Ethel Irene Bowers, and…

The name, "Carson Ryman" is written on the glass plate of this image of a toddler in wintry clothing seated on a chair.

Photograph of Ethel Irene (Ryman) Bowers as a young woman, standing.

Ethel was the daughter of Edward Andrew "Eddie" Ryman and Susan Frances "Sudie" (Huffman) Ryman.

Her husband was Alfred Lender Bowers (1921-2017), whom she married in 1946.

Photograph of three friends.

Left to right: Lizzie Funkhouser (later, Miller), Robbie Fletcher (later, Mumaw), and Fanny Ryman (later, Delawder).

These three women were from the Conicville area of Shenandoah County.

A cabinet card photograph of Jacob Ryman. The photograph was produced by Leedham of Ellwood City, Pennsylvania.

Jacob Ryman was born September 10, 1877 in the St. Luke Community of Shenandoah County. On December 23, 1903 he married Rose Riffey…
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