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List of Claimants, Volumes IV - VI
Unionists and the Civil
War Experience In
the Shenandoah Valley
See previous page for lists of
Claimants in
Volume
I
Volume II
Volume III |
Volume
IV - Includes
the Claims of 60
Brethren and Mennonite
families who
lived in the Broadway,
Cootes Store and Timberville
areas of Rockingham County,
Virginia (1000 pages) |
Volume
V - Highlights the stories of 56 families of Brethren, Mennonite and other faiths in Mill Creek, Port Republic, Elkton and east side of Rockingham County, Virginia (1193 pages). |
Volume VI - Summarizes
the Claims of
Brethren and Mennonite
families who lived
in Dayton, Harrisonburg, Hopkins Mill, Lacy Springs,
Melrose, Tenth Legion, Timberville
areas of
Rockingham County, Virginia
(1000 plus pages) |
| An Alphabetical Listing of Claimants in all Volumes is available here. |
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There
are a total of 60 families described
in this volume. Although most were strongly
loyal to the Union and their losses major,
only around a third received any payments.
Under threats of death and loss of their
property, they had been coerced at the
polls to vote for secession.
Broadway
John H. Baker
George Branner, Est
John A. Cline
Mary Guyer
Mary S. Homan
Michael Homan, Est.
Joseph F. Kline
Michael B. E. Kline
William J. Miller
John Minick, Est. & Noah
Minnick
Peter Ritchie
Abraham Shank
John Shaver
Jacob Silvuse
Isaac Smith
Noah Spitzer
Joseph Wampler
Joshua Wampler
John Zigler
Bowmans
Mill
George
Kline
John B. Kline
Samuel Shank
Cherry Grove
Abraham Beery, Est.
Abraham Brenneman
Jacob Good
George W. Grady
John Hawse
Phillip Hollar
Jacob A. Mitchell
Jacob Moyers
John Shultz
David Spitzer
Jacob Spitzer
John Stinespring
John B. Zirkle
Cootes Store
George Brunk
Dr. Wesley Newham
Jacob Turner
Timberville
W. K. Abbot
James M. Branner
William Cambell
David and Louis Driver
John W. Driver
Jonas Early
Martin Garber
Emanuel Hoover
David Kline
William McInturff
Samuel H. Myers
David B. Rhodes
William G. Thompson |
Explore
the personal struggles
of families in Rockingham
County, Virginia, who held
to their convictions regarding
slavery and war and maintained
their loyalty to the Union
during the Civil War. In
Volume V of Unionists
and the Civil War Experience
in the Shenandoah Valley,
you will meet 56 such families
who lived in the Goods Mill, LeRoy, McGaheysville, Port
Republic, Roadside
and Harrisonburg Areas,
Rockingham County, Virginia. Here
are the areas and names
of the families featured
in in the 1193 pages of Volume V.
Goods Mill
Samuel Carpenter
Samuel Good
William D. Maiden
Daniel Miller
Leroy
Stephen H. Murray
McGaheysville
Joseph H. Harshbarger
Nicholas Kyer
Port Republic
Philip Baker
Andrew J. Baugher
Winfield Scott Baugher
John Crawford Estate
Lawrence Crawford
William S. Downs
Elias Hudlow
Alexander Kyger
General Samuel H. Lewis, Estate
Samuel H. Lewis, Jr.
Amos Scott
James E. Shifflett
Philip H. Showalter
James Smith
Peter W. Whiter
Roadside
Asa S. Baugher
Juila A. Baugher
Nicholas Breeden
James B. Eastham
St. Clair D. & Francis W. Kirtley
Meredith Knighting
Rebecca Lawson
James G. Maiden
Harrisonburg
John Armentrout
Issac Bowman
John Bowman, Sr.
John W. Bowman
Joseph Bowman
Jacob Brunk
Abraham Early
Joseph Early
Gustavus A. Gay
Alge[r]non S. Gray
Robert A. Gray
George G. Hall
Issac Hardesty
William C. Harrison
Samuel Hartman
David S. Jones Estate
William Lineweaver
Moritz and Jonas Lowenbach
James J. Miller
John M. Miller
Joseph B. Moyers
Branson M. Parrett
Henry Pulse
Mary Strother
Edward J. Sullivan
Mrs. Emilie S. Waterman
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John Heatwole writes in the Preface, "Without addressing the impact of the war on the civilian population the story of the Civil War is incomplete and one-dimensional. If we exclude this story, we run the risk of glorifying the war as a stage set with banners flying, bands playing, and troops moving grandly over a sterile landscape." Listed
below are the names of
the claimants in Volume
VI.
Dayton
David Miller
Harrisonburg
Isaac G. Billhimer
Polly Blackwell
Thomas Branham
Henry Derrow, Estate
Nancy Faught
Theresa M. Heller
Jacob Hoover
Absalom W. Jones
John Kelly
Mary Lamb
Lewis Leopold
John J. Miller
Fannie Ralston
John Scanlon
Anna Shank
Adam Showalter
Maria Showalter
Elijah W. Sibert
Hopkins Mill
George Chrisman Estate
Lacey Springs
Abraham Huddle
Abram C. Long
Jacob Long
Jacob K. Mauzy
Abram C. Simmers
William C. Simmers
Simon P. Summers
Adam Thomas
Amanda Thompson
Samuel Zigler
Melrose
James Baker
Daniel Barr
John Huffman
Morrison Jones
Silem Sellers
John W. West
Mt. Clinton
W. R. Messick, Admin. of Gasner Messick
Tenth Legion
Emanuel Driver
John Harrison
Morgan Layton
Samuel Martz
Mathia Pickering
John B. Smith
Lewis Strickler
James W. West
Peter Wise
Curtis Yates
Peter Zette
Timberville
George H. Fetzer
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Rockingham
County businessmen Norman R.
Wenger and David S. Rodes have
researched the archival records
of the Southern Claims Commission
and compiled the claims these
families submitted to the U.S.
Government for compensation
after the war. The claimants'
stories, written by Emmert F. Bittinger, reveal physical hardship,
struggles of conscience and
fear of losing one’s
life.
Editor Emmert Bittinger, Professor
Emeritus of Bridgewater College,
has prepared the numerous documents
for publication and written an
insightful introduction to
Volumes I-V. His comments and
claim summaries set each in context
and help the reader to understand
the claim and how the Claims Commission
responded to it.
Volumes in the Unionists series
may be purchased from Reflections
of Yesteryear in the Dayton
(Va.) Farmer’s
Market and Rockingham
Cooperative on Grace Street in Harrisonburg
for $49.95, plus tax, and
may also be found in Harrisonburg,
Virginia bookstores.
This series is co-published by
the Valley Brethren-Mennonite
Heritage Center,
P.O. Box 1563,
Harrisonburg, VA 22803
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