Facing the Past: An Archive Honoring Those Who Lived Here Before Us
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John R. Langdon (1885-1968) and Eva Marie Dubel Langdon (1892-1978). He: Main Street Myersville resident, coachman; She: Daughter of farmer Tyson D. Dubel of Wolfsville.

Sarah E. Brown Langdon (1849-1898). Daughter of Myersville merchant Joseph Brown, wife of public notary Peter R. Langdon.

Catherine Grossnickle Leatherman (1828-1903). Native of Wolfsville; wife of Elias Leatherman; daughter of John Grossnickle and Mary Hauver Grossnickle.

Donald Eugene Leatherman (1912-2005) and Adrian Bradley Leatherman (1915-2008). Both Myersville-area brothers fought in WWII -- Donald in the army and Adrien in the Navy.

Ettie Olivia Mullendore Slifer Leatherman (1854-1928). Second wife of John Caleb Leatherman of Myersville.

George Leatherman (1827-1907). Grossnickle's Church of the Brethren elder, resident of Ellerton, centenarian.

Jacob Caleb Harlan Leatherman (1854-1920) and Amanda Elizabeth Frushour Leatherman (1863-1949) with Son Charles Leander Leatherman (1885-1974), Daughter Anna Estella Leatherman (1883-1958), and Infant Dessie May Leatherman (1888-1928). He: native of Wolfsville; She: native of Myersville.

John C. Leatherman (1852-1952) and Susan Rebecca Grossnickle Leatherman (1852-1909). Myersville farming couple.

John C. Leatherman (1852-1952). Son of Elder George Leatherman, farmer, Myersville resident interviewed about Civil War memories.

John Henry Melvin Leatherman (1854-1928) and Martha Ellen Grossnickle Leatherman (1858-1936). Wolfville farming couple.

John Caleb Leatherman (1852-1952), George Carlton Leatherman (1858-1955), David O. Leatherman (1857-1922), Charles Theodore Leatherman (1855-1946), Julia Malissa Leatherman Harshman (1862-1958), Clara Rebecca Leatherman Grossnickle (1851-1963), Sarah Catherine Leatherman Derr (1856-1956).

George Carlton Leatherman (1858-1955), John C. Leatherman (1852-1952), Clara Rebecca Leatherman Grossnickle (1851-1963), Julia Malissa Leatherman Harshman (1862-1958), and Sarah Catherine Leatherman Derr (1856-1956).

John Caleb Leatherman (1852-1952), Roy Lester Leatherman (1886-1980), Donald Eugene Leatherman (1912-2005), and Stephen Leatherman. Four generations in one picture.

Vada Elizabeth Grossnickle Leatherman (1886-1976), Roy Lester Leatherman (1886-1990), Nannie Rebecca Leatherman Eldridge (1888-1984), Clara Leatherman Flook (1891-1988), and Albert Daniel Flook, Sr. (1885-1973).

Roy Lester Leatherman (1886-1990). Myersville farmer and grocer.

Vada Elizabeth Grossnickle Leatherman (1886-1976). Wife of Myersville farmer and grocer Roy Lester Leatherman.

Roy Lester Leatherman (1886-1980) and Vada Elizabeth Grossnickle Leatherman (1886-1976). He: Son of John Caleb Leatherman and Susan Grossnickle Leatherman; She: Teacher and charity worker.

Marshall Jefferson Lewis (1913-1972). Printer and Wolfsville native.

Louisa Caroline Linebaugh (1846-1923). Daughter of wagonmaker and wheelright Jonathan Linebaugh of Main Street, Myersville; emigree to Ohio.

Dr. Herbert E. Lovell (1866-1947). Myersville pharmacist and drug store operator.

Elias H.Longman (1862-1946). Myersville native, son of George Longman and Rebecca Holtzman Longman.

Isiah Longman (1864-1923). Myersville native, son of George Longman and Rebecca Holtzman Longman.

William Ludy (1820-1898) and Susannah Dutrow Ludy (1829-1908). Myersville farming couple with their children Marzella, Maria, Cyrus, Charles, and Joseph.

Elizabeth Eby Flook Gross MacGregor (1910-1986). Myersville native.

Elizabeth Eby Flook Gross MacGregor (1910-1986). Myersville native.

Josiah Recher Marken (1825-1903). Native of Wolfsville, well-known early Frederick photographer.

Effie Recher Marken Motter (1853-1911) and Victor M. Marken (1858-1936). Children of Ann Buhrman and Josiah Marken.

Ann Maria Shank Marker (1840-1916) and Peter Marker (1842-1924). Owners of a large farm near Myersville.

Bertha Philhower Marker (1874-1834). Wife of Myersville farmer John Henry Marker.

Charlotte Michael Marker (1841-1925). Wife of Wesley Marker, daughter of Eli Michael.

George Wesley Marker (1831-1898), Mary Ann Dubel Marker (1936-1912), and Family Members. Residents of Wolfsville.

Peter Marker (1797-1881). Myersville native; father of ten -- several of whom migrated west.

Wesley Marker (1838-1908). Myersville resident and Democratic National Convention delegate.

William Carlton Marker (1892-1934), Bertha Philhower Marker (1834-1934), and John H. Marker (1866-1951). Myersville-area farmer, wife, and son.

Anna Marie Hoover Maugans with Members of her Family (1845-1932)

Christine Elizabeth Murphy Maugans (1879-1957). Wife of John Robert Maugans of Ellerton.

Jacob F. Maugans (1843-1929). Wolfsville resident, Civil War soldier, Company E., 3rd Regiment, Potomac Home Brigade, Maryland Volunteer Infantry.

John Henry Maugans (1840-1906). Civil War veteran of Co. K, 9th Indiana Infantry, and Wolfsville shopkeeper.

John Robert Maugans (1860-1940). Resident of Ellerton.

Russell Harrison Maugans (1889-1919). Left: Wolfsville resident and band member, victim of consumption.

Emmamae Brandenburg Morgan (1924-2005). Born and raised in Harmony, later Baltimore County school teacher.

Alice Mary Brown Metzger (1860-1941). Daughter of Myersville merchant Joseph Brown and his second wife, Lenah Schildknecht Brown; wife of John Luther Metzger.

Alice Rebecca Metzger (1900-1921). Daughter of John Luther Metzger and Alice Brown Metzger.

Clara May Grossnickle Metzger (1900-1983). Ellerton native, wife of Howard Luther Metzger.

Effie Josephine Hildebrand Metzger (1871-1966). Daughter of Myersville carriage maker John T. Hildebrand and his wife Sophia Brown Hildebrand.

Howard Luther Metzger (1898-1988). Son of Rev. John Luther Metzer and Alice Brown Metzger; Graduate of Gettysburg college; Myersville resident.

Howard Luther Metzger (1898-1988). Son of Rev. John Luther Metzer and Alice Brown Metzger; Graduate of Gettysburg college; Myersville resident.

Howard Luther Metzger (1898-1988) and Alice Rebecca Metzger (1900-1921). Children of John and Alice Metzger, Main Street, Myersville residents.

Rev. John Luther Metzger (1858-1917). Son of William Metzger and Lydia Toms Metger; Gettysburg College graduate; minister.

Rev. John Luther Metzger (1858-1917). Son of William Metger and Lydia Toms Metger; Gettysburg College graduate; minister.

Lydia Toms Metzger (1815-1899). Daughter of Samuel Toms and Mary Hoover Toms; wife of William Metzger.

William Metzger (1809-1968). Myersville-area farmer.

Brainard Harp Moser (1911-?). Hefty son of Ira C. and Murdie Harp Moser; Myersville native.

Ira Clifford Moser (1881-1935). Author of "The History of Myersville" and publisher of the "Monitor."

Charles C. Moser (1861-1929). Myersville confectioner, barber, and tobacconist.

Isiah Moser (1838-1932). Myersville town council member.

Temma Mae Poffinberger Moser (1867-1947). Myersville native, daughter of Aaron Poffinberger, wife of Elmer Moser.

John Henry Moser (1856-1940) and Drusilla Ann Snyder Moser (1856-1950). Farming couple, lived on Monument Road, Myersville.

Daniel H. Mowen (1839-1932) Civil War Veteran, Co. I, 7th Maryland Infantry, Myersville business owner.

Susan Maria Koogle Mowen (1839-1918). Wife of Civil War vet and Myersville businessman Daniel Mowen.

Susan Maria Koogle Mowen (1839-1918). Wife of Civil War vet and Myersville businessman Daniel Mowen.

Lettie P. Dubel Nutting (1882-1962). Daughter of Wolfsville Farmer Jacob H. Dubel and Charlotte Renner Dubel.

Josephus Palmer (1854-1931). Church Hill resident; carpenter.

Jacob Ulysses Palmer (1873-1948) and Tabitha Virginia Palmer (1877-1961). Residents of Wolfsville; He: Telephone lineman; She: Mother of ten.

Sylvester Josephus Palmer (1896-1974). Wolfsville native; farmer; son of Tabitha Virginia Palmer and Jacob Ulysses Palmer.

Tabitha Virginia Palmer (1877-1961). Wife of Jacob Ulysses Palmer; resident of Wolfsville.

Sisters Tabitha Virginia Palmer (1877-1961) and Pearl Palmer Marker (1900-1989). Wolfsville natives; daughters of Jospehus Palmer and Manzella Rice Palmer.

Elizabeth Catherine Moser Poffenberger (1861-1930). Wife of Martin Luther Poffenberger.

John F. Poffinberger (1847-1930. Myersville town council member.

Martin Luther Poffenberger (1856-1935). Church Hill farmer.

Amanda E. Poole (1890-1973). Worked for the Flook family, renown for her baking; daughter of Hezekiah Poole and Ann Elizabeth Baker.

Ida May Dubel Pratt (1875-1961). Daughter of Wolfsville farmer Jacob H. Dubel.

Benjamin F. Pryor (1836-1905). Resident of Wolfsville.

Mary Ursula Gaver Pyles (1904-1994) and Everett Edward Pyles (1895-1993). She: Teacher and choir director; He: State road inspector.

Alvin Henry Rice (1898-1991). Myersville garage owner.

Alvin Henry Rice (1898-1991). Son of Jeremiah David Rice and Senora E. Raymer Rice.

Anna Melissa Grove Rice, (1869-1930). Wife of Mahlon Rice.

Charles Wesley Rice (1865-1958). Resident of Ellerton.

Charles Wesley Rice (1865-1958) and Mary Ann Elizabeth Derr Rice (1854-1913). Residents of Ellerton.

Charles Wilson Summerfield Rice (1857-1915). Myersville native; farmer; son of Levin rice and Ann Rebecca Thomas Rice.

Frances Alice Horine Rice (1904-1955) and daughter. Sunday school pianist, wife of Alvin Henry Rice of Myersville.

Henry Rice, Jr. (1824-1910) and Anna Maria Catherine Ambrose Rice (1836-1919). Ellerton farmers.

Henry Rice, Jr. (1824-1910). Ellerton farmer.

Henry Rice, Jr. (1824-1910). Ellerton farmer.

Jeremiah David Rice (1875-1941). Myersville postman, a fall from an apple tree lead to his death.

Jeremiah David Rice (1875-1941). Myersville postman, a fall from an apple tree lead to his death.

Mahlon Luther Rice (1854-1850) and Anna Melissa Grove Rice (1869-1930). Ellerton native, farmer and wife.

Mahlon Luther Rice (1854-1950). Myersville resident.

Mahlon Luther Rice (1854-1950). Myersville-area farmer.

Standing: Evva Maude Rice Schroyer (1891-1980), Reno Calvert Rice (1889-1955), Rev. Clay Edward Rice (1887-1954, Cyrus Luther Rice (1900-1935), Rev. Elmer Frederic Rice (1886-1977), and Ilga Rice Stottlemyer (1893-1960). Sitting: Mahlon Luther Rice (1854-1950), and Anna Melissa Grove Rice (1836-1930).

Paul Jeremiah Rice (1917-1993). Myersville native; son of Jeremiah David Rice and Alta Gertrude Palmer Rice.

Senora Ellen Esther Raymer Rice (1864-1903. Wife of Myersville Postman Jeremiah David Rice.

Robert Johnson Ridgley (1867-1952). Cantankerous teacher, reverend, and still-breaker.

Ezra Routzahn (1836-1915). President of Myersville Savings Bank.

Calvin Routzan (1857-1930), Jeremiah Rice (1875-1941), Melvin Franklin Shepley (1872-1934), and John M. Grossnickle (1876-1942). Turn-of-the-20th-Century Myersville-area postmen.

Annie M. Marker Rowe (1883-1965). Daughter of Peter Marker, wife of Luther Smith then Charles Wesley Rowe.

Clarence Coolidge Schroyer (1923-2013). WWII vet and D-Day survivor.

William Henry Shank (1863-1937). Myersville native and farmer; son of William Shank and Susan Easterday Shank.

Dorothy Grandon, Lloyd Shank, and Mary Shank. Main players in a confusing case of tarring and feathering that resulted in a widely covered trial and multiple convictions.

Dorothy Grandon, Lloyd Shank, and Mary Shank. Main players in a confusing case of tarring and feathering that resulted in a widely covered trial and multiple convictions.

Arlepha Viola Dusing Shepley (1887-1982). Wife of J. Emmert Shepley.

Charles Ellsworth Shepley (1862-1923). Resident of Ellerton.

Daniel Shepley (1842-1929). Civil War Veteran, Company G, 7th Maryland Infantry.

Edgar Martin Shepley (1893-1971) and Lulu Irene Marker Shepley (1895-1970). Myersville and Wolfsville-area teens who eloped on their way church.

Ida Cynthia Raymer Shepley (1868-1944). Daughter of Simon Peter Raymer and Margaret E. Delauter Raymer

Jacob Luther Schildknecht (1841-1903). Native of Myersville; moved to Indiana and then Missouri.

Anna Mary Louise Devault Schildknecht (1838-1897). Wife of Jacob Luther Schildknecht.

Charles Ellsworth Shepley (1863-1925) and Elizabeth Ellen Gaver Shepley (1879-1948). Myersville residents; He: Son of John Frederick Shepley and Cynthia Pryor Shepley.

Clarence Howard Shepley (1913-1937). Myersville native; killed when car crashed into train engine.

Elizabeth Shepley (1852-1926). Ellerton native and daughter of John Frederick Shepley and Susannah Lowery Shepley.

Ethel V. Morgan Shepley (1895-1930). Wife of George Foster Shepley.

Floyd Luther Shepley (1917-19680. Son of George Upton Shepley and Hattie Wachtel Shepley; Myersville native.

Fred Guy Shepley (1907-1970) and Elmer Milo Shepley (1898-1975). Sons of Charles E. Shepley and Elizabeth Gaver Shepley.

John Frederick Shepley (1814-1881). Ellerton resident.

George Foster Shepley (1892-1965). Myersville farmer.

George Upton Shepley (1865-1940) and Ida Catherine Raymer Shepley (1868-1944). He: Son of John Frederick Shepley and Cynthia Pryor Shepley. She: Daughter of Simon P. Raymer and Margaret E. Delauder Raymer.

George Upton Shepley (1867-1940). Resident of Myersville.

George Upton Shepley (1886-1946). Son of Aaron Shepley and Susan Rebecca Longman Shepley; farm located near Harmony on Coxy Brown Road.

George Upton Shepley (1882-1946) and Hattie Virginia Wachtel Shepley (1883-1968). Harmony farming couple, lived on Coxy Brown Road.

Hattie Virginia Wachtel Shepley (1883-1968). Daughter of George Washington Wachtel and Louisa Catharine Metzger Wachtel.

Lulu Irene Marker Shepley (1895-1950). Wolfville native; wife of Edgar Martin Shepley.

Lena Levirl Blickenstff Shepley (1916-2007). Daughter of Edward B. and Mabel S. Kline Blickenstaff; wife of Floyd Luther Shepley.

Orville Raymond Shepley (1899-1972). Native of Ellerton; resident of Myersville.

Mary Ellen Suman Shepley (1832-1921). First wife of Myersville resident and Civil War veteran Daniel Shepley.

Sarah Catherine Garnand Shively (1844-1912). Daughter of Joel Garnand, wife of Christian Shively.

William Horace Shuff, Sr. (1870-1924). Wolfsville farmer and road supervisor.

George Arthur Smith (1870-1951), Thomas Keller Smith (1877-1952), Faris Earl Smith (1880-1959), Raymond Leslie Smith (1885-1966), Ida Mary Smith Morgan (1866-1952), and Luella irene Smith Lovell (1888-1957). Children of Wolfville's Josiah Faris Smith and Ellen Savilla Fox Smith.

Lettie P. Dubel Nutting (1882-1962). Daughter of Wolfsville Farmer Jacob H. Dubel and Charlotte Renner Dubel.

Charles Walter Stottlemyer (1925-1978). Wolfsville WWII veteran.

George Marvin Stottlemyer (1925-2003). Middlepoint native; 5th Spearhead Division, U.S. Marine Corps; one of the first 5,000 on Iwo Jima in 1945.

Christopher Columbus Stottlemyer (1857-1931), Sarah Priscilla Catherine Blickenstaff Stottlemyer (1865-1892), and family. Residents of Wolfsville.

Christopher Columbus Stottlemyer (1857-1931) and Sarah Priscilla Catherine Blickenstaff Stottlemyer (1865-1852). Residents of Wolfsville.

John Franklin Stottlemyer (1851-1095). Native of Jerusalem, son of John Wesley Stottlemyer.

John Wesley Stottlermyer (1826-1901). Jerusalem farmer.

Mary Hellen Rohrback Stottlemyer (1826-1894). Wife of John Wesley Stottlemyer.

Sophia C. Betts Stottlemyer (1853-1937). Wife of Hiram Stottlemyer, resident of Pleasant Walk.

Sarah Priscilla Catherine Blickenstaff Stottlemyer (1865-1852). Resident of Wolfsville.

William Harlan Summers (1866-1939) and Mary Sue Brandenburg Summers (1871-1930). Residents of Myersville.

Sylvester Joshua Summers (1902-1981). Broom maker and beekeeper.

Clarke Elvin Toms (1912-1975) and Beatrice Clingan Toms (1914-2017). He: farmer; she: author of multiple books, caterer, QVC star.

Raymond Ezra Toms, Sr. (1887-1942). Myersville native.

George Washington Wachtel (1846-1931). Merchant, businessman, election judge, bank vice president.

George Washington Wachtel (1846-1931). Myersville Bank president.

Henry L. Wachter (1881-1964). Myersville harnessmaker.

Ilga May Rice Warrenfeltz (1893-1960) and Edgar Lewis Warrenfeltz (1892-1978). She: native of Myersville; He: Harp Hill Road farmer and school teacher.

John Wesley Warrenfeltz (1866-1940) and Margaret Manzella Schroyer Warrenfeltz (1866-1950). Ellerton farmer and wife who lived on Harp Hill Road.

Ira Thaddeus Warrenfeltz (1893-1975) and Amy Susan Willard Warrenfeltz (1892-1979). Church Hill carpenter and farming couple.

Wade Winton Warrenfeltz (1886-1957). Son of John and Margaret Schroyer Warrenfeltz, Myersville native.

Anna Delilah Schlosser Waters (1818-1893). Wife of James Waters, resident of Harmony.

Anna Delilah Schlosser Waters (1818-1893). Wife of James Waters, resident of Harmony.

The Waters Family of Harmony. Back row from left: Norbet, Fannie, James, Annie, and Edna. Ruth, in middle in front of James. Front from left: son John Clarence, Mary, and Emma (Haller) Waters. (John Waters, father of the family, died in 1902.)

Emma Jemima Haller Waters (1860-1943). Harmony farmer and baker, she was the widow of John Calvin Waters.

John Clarence Waters (1890-1978). Native of Harmony.

Letha Alice Grossnickle Wiles (1899-2001). Author of the book "So Many Mornings," wife of farmer Russell P. "Pete" Wiles.

Evelyn Rebecca Shepley Wilhide (1909-2000). Post Master of Myersville; second wife of Paul Sigler Wilhide.

Janice Rebecca Wilhide Tinney (1925-1977), Doris Catherine Wilhide Dutrow (1922-2007), and Paul Nelson Wilhide (1924-1987). Main Street, Myersville residents and children of trolley car conductor Paul Sigler Wilhide.

Leah Burhl Dubel Wilhide (1896-1927). Daughter of Tyson Dubel, public school teacher, victim of consumption.

Paul Sigler Wilhide (1895-1968) and Doris Catherine Wilhide Dutrow (1922-2007). Main Street, Myersville resident and trolley car conductor, here with his daughter.

Jacob Williams (1844-1900) and Elizabeth Smith Williams (1840-1919). Wolfsville farming couple.

Iva C. Kline Wise (1899-1973). Native of Wolfsville.

Catharine Amelia Palmer Wolf (1834-1899). Wife of Daniel Wolf of Wolfsville.

Daniel Wolf (1832-1904). Wolfsville-area resident; husband of Catharine Palmer Wolf; son of Samuel Wolf and Mary Kuhn Wolf.

Henry Lee Wolf (1864-1943) and Ida Virginia Kline Wolf (1860-1942). Farming couple who lived on Garfield Road.

Ida Virginia Kline Wolf (1860-1942). Daughter of Jacob Warrenfeltz Kline; wife of Henry Lee Wolf.

Joseph Wolf (1850-aft. 1910). Justice of the Peace, Notary Public, freight agent.

Loy Nelson Wolfe (1884-1969). Wolfsville farmer after whom Loy Wolfe Road was named.

Nancy A. Maugans Wolf (1834-1920), Wife of William Lysell Wolf, resident of Wolfsville.

Nettie Florence Kline Wolfe (1884-1980). Wife of farmer Loy Wolfe.

Elmer A. Young (1863-1940). Poultry and pigeon farmer, magazine correspondent, founding member of Myersville Savings Bank.