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From: "Floyd R. Mason" <>
Subject: Re: [BRE] RE:Announcement from Valley Brethren-Mennonite Heritage Center
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 17:00:17 -0500
References: <MABBIJKMKNCKDDHOFFNBEEKPCJAA.ebitting@bridgewater.edu>


Dear Emmert......I have gotten the following from your message below.
If it is not correct please advise me.....I have a request for a book
from a friend.
Floyd R & Kathryn G. Mason
115 E. Rainbow Drive
Bridgewater, VA 22812-1733
See our Web Page
http://home.rica.net/masonf3150/
Phone 540-828-4617
----- Original Message -----
From: "Emmert Bittinger" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 3:14 PM
Subject: [BRE] RE:Announcement from Valley Brethren-Mennonite Heritage
Center


>
> The new Valley Brethren-Mennonite Heritage Center, located on highland
> overlooking the Shen. Valley west of Harrisonburg, VA, now has two
> buildings, one now being used as a Welcome Center and the other a 1840
> vintage large brick house which will be called the Burkholder-Myers
> exhibition home. This home was occupied by Bishop Martin Burkholder, a
> Mennonite and later by the Brethren Myers family, whose generous gift
helped
> make it possible for the Heritage Center to own it. The cite consists of
ten
> lovely hilltop acres.
> The second Heritage Center announcement relates to another project which
> has now completed its first phase. Nearly 300 Brethren, Mennonite and
other
> families loyal to the Federal Government and opposed in 1861 to secession
> lived in Rockingham County, Virginia. Most of these filed claims for
losses
> at the hands of Union Soldiers. The Federal Government allowed the
repayment
> of these losses provided the families could prove A) Loyalty and B) they
> could present a valid list of their losses. The Government called these
> families "UNIONISTS" because of their loyalty.
> The Heritage Center in cooperation with the Valley Research Associates has
> determined to publish these extremely interesting records from the
National
> Archives. These records ("the Southern Claims Commission Records") are
> filled with interesting descriptions, testimonies, and historical data
> concerning these families. Some of the claims are 40 and 50 pages long,
> filled with testimonies of family members, neighbors, and officials
> regarding what happened while the troops occupied their farms.
> The FIRST VOLUME of this six or seven volume series of books is now off
the
> press and available to the reader. Titled, "Unionists and the Civil War
> Experience in the Shenandoah Valley, Vol. 1," the first book is 750 plus
> pages in length and beautifully hard bound. Thirty seven Rockingham County
> Unionist Families living near Bridgewater, Mt. Crawford, Cross Keys, and
> Port Republic are featured with their Civil War Experiences. Eleven
families
> alone from the Mill Creek Church of the Brethren; three from what is now
the
> Bridgewater Church of the Brethren. If there is interest, I can include
the
> list of families in a later message.
> The book is available for the price of $49.95 plus $5.00 for shipping and
> handling. Virginia residents must add $2.25 state tax. The sender of this
> message will be glad to describe the book further to any who respond to
this
> message, and will transfer your order to the office where the orders will
be
> filled. Checks are to be written to the "VRA" (Valley Research
Associates).
> The sender of this message provides this service free. EFB
>
>
>
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