Hello all, Reading through "Pages from newspapers past" from one of Shenandoah County's newspapers I found the following from Feb. 15, 1906... "The old oak tree on the river road, which has been standing for centuries and has been one of the corners of the town since Jacob Miller, nearly a hundred and fifty years ago divided two farms into town lots, has fallen a victim to the axemen's touch. On last Tuesday, Messrs. Edward McInturff, John Cooley and Jos. Smoots cut down this grand old relic. The tree was hollow and there was danger of its being blown down. During the war, when Woodstock was in the possession of the enemy, it was used as a Post Office. There fair maidens deposited letters intended for their gallant beaux in the Confederate army, and in turn received tender missives placed in the inner recesses of this faithful sentinel." Thought this was interesting and amusing - NOT a story you hear every day, to be sure. If you are watching the website, I have been updating some pictures and adding bits of data that has been sent to me. My book project is now complete. Don Silvius coordinator Shenandoah County GenWeb Project

Hi Donna, I am interested. Larry Riffey [email protected] ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com

There was David Logan in Frederick Co., VA 1742 near Middletown. In 1735 he was taxed in Chester, PA . ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com

Is there anyone out there researching LOGANS of the Shenandoah Valley?

Hello Ruth: I am not connected to any Boyd's but have been searching Gordon's in the area of Boyd's Mill and Browntown for several years. I wonder if you have any Gordon's in your research and where in Warren County are you looking for your Boyd's? Thanks, Estelle ----- Original Message ----- From: "RUTH HENRY" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 5:42 PM Subject: Re: [VASHENAN] Boyd family research > Hi, > Do you have any Warren co Boyd family members or info. What family do > Boyds tie in with? I guess if I collect any I find I may be able to group > them and find my line. Thanks > Louise Henry > > Tracy Sutherland Staadt <[email protected]> wrote: I have the boyd > family married into my family I dont have much but maybe i can help > > Tracy Staadt > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: RUTH HENRY > To: shen > Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 6:57:48 PM > Subject: [VASHENAN] Boyd family research > > > Hi, > Anyone doing Boyd family research. I'm still looking for my gggrandmother > Ruth Boyd born ca.1780. > > Appreciate any help. > > Sincerely, > > Louise Mathews Henry > > > --------------------------------- > Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who > knows. > Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Tonight's top picks. What will you watch tonight? Preview the hottest > shows on Yahoo! TV. > http://tv.yahoo.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > --------------------------------- > Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! > FareChase. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi, Do you have any Warren co Boyd family members or info. What family do Boyds tie in with? I guess if I collect any I find I may be able to group them and find my line. Thanks Louise Henry Tracy Sutherland Staadt <[email protected]> wrote: I have the boyd family married into my family I dont have much but maybe i can help Tracy Staadt ----- Original Message ---- From: RUTH HENRY To: shen Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 6:57:48 PM Subject: [VASHENAN] Boyd family research Hi, Anyone doing Boyd family research. I'm still looking for my gggrandmother Ruth Boyd born ca.1780. Appreciate any help. Sincerely, Louise Mathews Henry --------------------------------- Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ____________________________________________________________________________________ Tonight's top picks. What will you watch tonight? Preview the hottest shows on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --------------------------------- Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase.

Thanks again, Howard. Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Miller" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 6:55 PM Subject: Re: [VASHENAN] Rev. J. W. Steirwalt, Page County too? > The Rev Stirewalt that served the Stoney Man Parish in Page County (Mt. > Calvary Lutheran, Morning Star and Grace Lutheran churches) was Rev. J. N. > Stirewalt. He was a brother to J.P.(Jerome Paul) Stirewalt. John N. > Stirewalt died in 1907 at the age of 62. Jerome and John's father, Jacob, > was also a minister, as well as two uncles. More information can be found > on > the Stirewalt family of ministers at the Rockingham County Historical > Society, Dayton, Virginia, in the unpublished and undated manuscripts of > Rev. J. Paul Stirewalt. > > Perhaps J.W. Stirewalt was one of the uncles? >

The Rev Stirewalt that served the Stoney Man Parish in Page County (Mt. Calvary Lutheran, Morning Star and Grace Lutheran churches) was Rev. J. N. Stirewalt. He was a brother to J.P.(Jerome Paul) Stirewalt. John N. Stirewalt died in 1907 at the age of 62. Jerome and John's father, Jacob, was also a minister, as well as two uncles. More information can be found on the Stirewalt family of ministers at the Rockingham County Historical Society, Dayton, Virginia, in the unpublished and undated manuscripts of Rev. J. Paul Stirewalt. Perhaps J.W. Stirewalt was one of the uncles? -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard A. Pence Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 2:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [VASHENAN] Rev. J. W. Steirwalt, Page County too? Thanks. I guess, if the good Rev. had recently gone to Luray, then a bride from Timberville (who had attended Rader's Church) might "motor" to where her long-time minister was - Luray? - to be married by him. I am going to have to dig the clipping out again and examine it much more closely. This was a 1918 wedding. Would that fit Rev. Stirewalt's presence in Luray? Thanks again. Richard A. Pence 3211 Adams Ct, Fairfax, VA 22030-1900 Voice 703-591-4243 / Fax 703-352-3560 Pence Family History <www.pipeline.com/~richardpence/> ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks. I guess, if the good Rev. had recently gone to Luray, then a bride from Timberville (who had attended Rader's Church) might "motor" to where her long-time minister was - Luray? - to be married by him. I am going to have to dig the clipping out again and examine it much more closely. This was a 1918 wedding. Would that fit Rev. Stirewalt's presence in Luray? Thanks again. Richard A. Pence 3211 Adams Ct, Fairfax, VA 22030-1900 Voice 703-591-4243 / Fax 703-352-3560 Pence Family History <www.pipeline.com/~richardpence/>

"J. Whetzel" <[email protected]> wrote: > Central High School was in Woodstock and the first class to graduate was > in > 1960. There was a Woodstock High School and an Edinburg High School prior > to 1960 Then, wouldn't it be reasonable to assume that if the bride is described as being from Edinburg and she is schooled to graduate from "Central High" in June, that the wedding would have been in 1960 or later? Richard

Central High School was in Woodstock and the first class to graduate was in 1960. There was a Woodstock High School and an Edinburg High School prior to 1960 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard A. Pence Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 7:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [VASHENAN] Another of those unidentified clips Thanks, Judy. Was Central High in Edinburg or, as someone suggested, in Woodstock? Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: "judy stickley" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 8:34 PM Subject: Re: [VASHENAN] Another of those unidentified clips > I'm thinking that Sally graduated from Central in 1960. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard A. Pence" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 1:20 AM > Subject: [VASHENAN] Another of those unidentified clips > > >>I have an undated newspaper clipping, apparently from a New Market paper, >> but not sure. It says: >> >> The marriage of Miss Sallie PENCE, daughter of Mr. and. Mrs. Mark PENCE, >> of >> Edinburg, and Richard Allen Golliday, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Golliday, >> of >> Mt. Jackson, was solemnized on Friday, April 15, at 3 o'clock at the >> Edinburg Christian Church. >> >> It also says that Mrs. Golliday will graduate from Central High in June. >> >> Does anyone have a directory of graduates of Edinburg's Central High and >> can >> tell me what year Sallie Pence Golliday may have graduated? This quite >> possibly could have been in the late 1950s, but ... >> >> Richard A. Pence >> 3211 Adams Ct, Fairfax, VA 22030-1900 >> Voice 703-591-4243 / Fax 703-352-3560 >> Pence Family History <www.pipeline.com/~richardpence/> ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Stirewalt the current local spelling (not Steirwalt) was the minister at Luray too - likely was the same one - Mt. Calvary Lutheran I believe and his granddaughter donated the Pastor's Notes on that term to the Page Public Library. That would make sense with your "motor" story too - Good luck. -----Original Message----- From: Richard A. Pence [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 11:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [VASHENAN] Rev. J. W. Steirwalt, where? I have a photocopy of an old unidentified newspaper clipping that says Bettie Margaret Pence and Caspter Allen Kipps motored from Timberville to "our town" to be married on 16 May 1918. Am trying to figure out if "our town" is in Rockingham or Shenandoah County. They were married by the Rev. J. P. Stirewalt, D.D. I know I'ver run across that latter name before, but where did he serve? After the wedding, the couple was "motored to New Market" apparently to catch the "Southern train to Washington." They were on their way to Milwaukee, Wissconsin, where the groom was to soon be ordained as a Lutheran minister. He had accepted a call to serve a congregation in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. Where is "our town"? Richard A. Pence 3211 Adams Ct, Fairfax, VA 22030-1900 Voice 703-591-4243 / Fax 703-352-3560 Pence Family History <www.pipeline.com/~richardpence/>

Thanks, Judy. Was Central High in Edinburg or, as someone suggested, in Woodstock? Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: "judy stickley" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 8:34 PM Subject: Re: [VASHENAN] Another of those unidentified clips > I'm thinking that Sally graduated from Central in 1960. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard A. Pence" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 1:20 AM > Subject: [VASHENAN] Another of those unidentified clips > > >>I have an undated newspaper clipping, apparently from a New Market paper, >> but not sure. It says: >> >> The marriage of Miss Sallie PENCE, daughter of Mr. and. Mrs. Mark PENCE, >> of >> Edinburg, and Richard Allen Golliday, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Golliday, >> of >> Mt. Jackson, was solemnized on Friday, April 15, at 3 o'clock at the >> Edinburg Christian Church. >> >> It also says that Mrs. Golliday will graduate from Central High in June. >> >> Does anyone have a directory of graduates of Edinburg's Central High and >> can >> tell me what year Sallie Pence Golliday may have graduated? This quite >> possibly could have been in the late 1950s, but ... >> >> Richard A. Pence >> 3211 Adams Ct, Fairfax, VA 22030-1900 >> Voice 703-591-4243 / Fax 703-352-3560 >> Pence Family History <www.pipeline.com/~richardpence/>

I'm thinking that Sally graduated from Central in 1960. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard A. Pence" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 1:20 AM Subject: [VASHENAN] Another of those unidentified clips >I have an undated newspaper clipping, apparently from a New Market paper, > but not sure. It says: > > The marriage of Miss Sallie PENCE, daughter of Mr. and. Mrs. Mark PENCE, > of > Edinburg, and Richard Allen Golliday, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Golliday, > of > Mt. Jackson, was solemnized on Friday, April 15, at 3 o'clock at the > Edinburg Christian Church. > > It also says that Mrs. Golliday will graduate from Central High in June. > > Does anyone have a directory of graduates of Edinburg's Central High and > can > tell me what year Sallie Pence Golliday may have graduated? This quite > possibly could have been in the late 1950s, but ... > > Richard A. Pence > 3211 Adams Ct, Fairfax, VA 22030-1900 > Voice 703-591-4243 / Fax 703-352-3560 > Pence Family History <www.pipeline.com/~richardpence/> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

Thanks so much for the information on Pastor Stirewalt. To the mix, I will add this tidbit, gleaned from another newspaper clipping: "At 12 o'clock m. on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 1919, Miss Resale Lue PENCE and Mr. Martin Turner Golliday were married at the home of the officiating minister by Rev. J. P. Stirewalt, D. D., in New Market, Va. So, at least in October of 1919, the Rev. Stiirewalt had a home in New Market. Now to find out where he was the preceding year, per the original request below. I'm going to go back over the first clipping to make sure I didn't miss anything, but my reading of it says the 1918 marriage by J. P. Sitrewalt took place in "our town" and the couple "motored" there from Timberville and following the ceremony they "were motored" to New Market. I know I'm full of questions this week, but I am poring through photocopies of an old scrapbook full of clippings - many on the Pence family, but others are also included (mostly in-laws, I suspect) trying to glean what I can. It is frustrating trying to tie things down when the name of the paper and the date are not noted with the clippings. It's nice to know that "the happy couple" were married on Wednesday but it would be even nice to know which Wednesday in which year and which city. <g> Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Miller" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 1:07 PM Subject: [VASHENAN] Rev. J. W. Steirwalt or J.P. Stirewalt, where? > J.P. Stirewalt serviced as the pastor of the Rader's Church and > Timberville > Parish from 1882-1919 according to the book, The Lutheran Church in > Virginia, 1717-1962, by William E Eisenberg, published by the Va. Synod, > Lutheran Church in Va. Roanoke, Va. 1976. (see page 530) I do not find a > J.W. Stiewalt in this book. Rader's church is in Timberville. I can not > find in the book, the other churches or locations that were included in > the > Timberville Parish. In the Lutheran church, a Parish may include several > churches. I noticed that J.P. Stirewalt also served as pastor of the > Morning > Star Lutheran Church in Orkeny Springs from 1906-1907. From a brief review > of the book, it appears that J.P.Stirewalt was only serving at the > Timberville church in 1918. You should do a more extensive review of this > book. > > I think that you will need to find J.P. Stirewalt's "day book," minister > record or journal to determine just where he was on 16 May 1918. One may > not > exist, but I would first check at the Lutheran Seminary, in Gettysburg, > Pa. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Richard A. Pence > Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 11:12 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [VASHENAN] Rev. J. W. Steirwalt, where? > > I have a photocopy of an old unidentified newspaper clipping that says > Bettie Margaret Pence and Caspter Allen Kipps motored from Timberville to > "our town" to be married on 16 May 1918. Am trying to figure out if "our > town" is in Rockingham or Shenandoah County. They were married by the Rev. > J. P. Stirewalt, D.D. I know I'ver run across that latter name before, but > where did he serve? After the wedding, the couple was "motored to New > Market" apparently to catch the "Southern train to Washington." They were > on > > their way to Milwaukee, Wissconsin, where the groom was to soon be > ordained > as a Lutheran minister. He had accepted a call to serve a congregation in > Cedarburg, Wisconsin. > > Where is "our town"? > > Richard A. Pence > 3211 Adams Ct, Fairfax, VA 22030-1900 > Voice 703-591-4243 / Fax 703-352-3560 > Pence Family History <www.pipeline.com/~richardpence/> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Richard; If this was late 1950s, it would have been Central High School in Woodstock, which opened in 1959. Ceya Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard A. Pence" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 1:20 AM Subject: [VASHENAN] Another of those unidentified clips >I have an undated newspaper clipping, apparently from a New Market paper, > but not sure. It says: > > The marriage of Miss Sallie PENCE, daughter of Mr. and. Mrs. Mark PENCE, > of > Edinburg, and Richard Allen Golliday, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Golliday, > of > Mt. Jackson, was solemnized on Friday, April 15, at 3 o'clock at the > Edinburg Christian Church. > > It also says that Mrs. Golliday will graduate from Central High in June. > > Does anyone have a directory of graduates of Edinburg's Central High and > can > tell me what year Sallie Pence Golliday may have graduated? This quite > possibly could have been in the late 1950s, but ... > > Richard A. Pence > 3211 Adams Ct, Fairfax, VA 22030-1900 > Voice 703-591-4243 / Fax 703-352-3560 > Pence Family History <www.pipeline.com/~richardpence/> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I have an undated newspaper clipping, apparently from a New Market paper, but not sure. It says: The marriage of Miss Sallie PENCE, daughter of Mr. and. Mrs. Mark PENCE, of Edinburg, and Richard Allen Golliday, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Golliday, of Mt. Jackson, was solemnized on Friday, April 15, at 3 o'clock at the Edinburg Christian Church. It also says that Mrs. Golliday will graduate from Central High in June. Does anyone have a directory of graduates of Edinburg's Central High and can tell me what year Sallie Pence Golliday may have graduated? This quite possibly could have been in the late 1950s, but ... Richard A. Pence 3211 Adams Ct, Fairfax, VA 22030-1900 Voice 703-591-4243 / Fax 703-352-3560 Pence Family History <www.pipeline.com/~richardpence/>

J.P. Stirewalt serviced as the pastor of the Rader's Church and Timberville Parish from 1882-1919 according to the book, The Lutheran Church in Virginia, 1717-1962, by William E Eisenberg, published by the Va. Synod, Lutheran Church in Va. Roanoke, Va. 1976. (see page 530) I do not find a J.W. Stiewalt in this book. Rader's church is in Timberville. I can not find in the book, the other churches or locations that were included in the Timberville Parish. In the Lutheran church, a Parish may include several churches. I noticed that J.P. Stirewalt also served as pastor of the Morning Star Lutheran Church in Orkeny Springs from 1906-1907. From a brief review of the book, it appears that J.P.Stirewalt was only serving at the Timberville church in 1918. You should do a more extensive review of this book. I think that you will need to find J.P. Stirewalt's "day book," minister record or journal to determine just where he was on 16 May 1918. One may not exist, but I would first check at the Lutheran Seminary, in Gettysburg, Pa. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard A. Pence Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 11:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [VASHENAN] Rev. J. W. Steirwalt, where? I have a photocopy of an old unidentified newspaper clipping that says Bettie Margaret Pence and Caspter Allen Kipps motored from Timberville to "our town" to be married on 16 May 1918. Am trying to figure out if "our town" is in Rockingham or Shenandoah County. They were married by the Rev. J. P. Stirewalt, D.D. I know I'ver run across that latter name before, but where did he serve? After the wedding, the couple was "motored to New Market" apparently to catch the "Southern train to Washington." They were on their way to Milwaukee, Wissconsin, where the groom was to soon be ordained as a Lutheran minister. He had accepted a call to serve a congregation in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. Where is "our town"? Richard A. Pence 3211 Adams Ct, Fairfax, VA 22030-1900 Voice 703-591-4243 / Fax 703-352-3560 Pence Family History <www.pipeline.com/~richardpence/> ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I have a photocopy of an old unidentified newspaper clipping that says Bettie Margaret Pence and Caspter Allen Kipps motored from Timberville to "our town" to be married on 16 May 1918. Am trying to figure out if "our town" is in Rockingham or Shenandoah County. They were married by the Rev. J. P. Stirewalt, D.D. I know I'ver run across that latter name before, but where did he serve? After the wedding, the couple was "motored to New Market" apparently to catch the "Southern train to Washington." They were on their way to Milwaukee, Wissconsin, where the groom was to soon be ordained as a Lutheran minister. He had accepted a call to serve a congregation in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. Where is "our town"? Richard A. Pence 3211 Adams Ct, Fairfax, VA 22030-1900 Voice 703-591-4243 / Fax 703-352-3560 Pence Family History <www.pipeline.com/~richardpence/>