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Four Generations: Gochenours Windles, & Reynolds

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Title

Four Generations: Gochenours Windles, & Reynolds

Subject

Fauber, Mary Gochenour (1849-1926)
Gochenour, Alice Belle Windle (1874-1945)
Reynolds, Florence Gochenour (1893- )
Swartz, Eula Magdalene Reynolds (1913-2000)

Description

Photograph of four generations of women from the Gochenour, Windle, and Reynolds Families.

Identified are: Mary (Gochenour) Fauber, (back), her daughter from her first husband, Alice (Windle) Gochenour (right), her granddaughter, Florence (Gochenour) Reynolds, and her great-granddaughter, Eula Magdalene Reynolds.

Mary (Gochenour) Fauber was the daughter of Levi and Mary (Wisman) Gochenour. She had two husbands. The first was Henry Windle (1848-1901) whom she married in 1873. After he died, she marred again in 1903 to Cornelius Fauber (1839-1911).

Her daughter, Alice B. (Windle) Gochenour married Calvin Gochenour in 1892 and raised eleven children with him. When she died the newspaper described her as "a well-beloved citizen of the Fairview community".

Mary (Gochenour) Fauber's granddaughter, Florence (Gochenour) Reynolds, married Joseph Calvin Reynolds (1891-1991) and had four children.

The youngest in this photograph, Eula M. (Reynolds) Swartz, married Charles Irving Swartz (1911-1996) and raised two daughters, Anna Mae and Mary Ruth Swartz. The couple lived near Saumsville.

Creator

Morrison Studio

Source

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Publisher

Shenandoah County Library

Date

The glass plate negative of this image was stored in a box labeled "Nov 1923".

Contributor

Identified in 2012 by Jane (Coffelt) deCoursey who was the great great granddaughter of Mary (Gochenour) Windle Fauber.
Phyllis Wright later made some revisions and this family history is also available in the book, "Jacob Gochenour Family History", pages 86, 134, 236, 257.

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Relation

Florence (Gochenour) Reynolds appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 003295, 010343, 011465, 017873, 023197, and 025112.
Eula M. (Reynolds) Swartz appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 003295, 005409, 010343, 010872, 017873, and 025112.

Identifier

025112

Original Format

Glass Negative

Citationzork

Morrison Studio, “Four Generations: Gochenours Windles, & Reynolds,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed December 5, 2025, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/54771.

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