James Madison University Libraries Special Collections
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Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807
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Paula Weddle and Molly Schwanz, Tiffany Cole
Administrative Information
Use Restrictions
The copyright interests in this collection have been transferred to the James Madison University Special Collection Library. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library Reference Desk (library-special@jmu.edu).
Access Restrictions
Collection open to research. Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws before using this collection. Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the James Madison University Special Collections Library to use this collection.
Preferred Citation
[identification of item], [box #, folder #], Dudley and Rexrode Family Papers, SC 0213, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.
Acquisition Information
The materials in this collection were purchased by Special Collections at the March 24, 2008 estate sale of Marshall Dudley Rexrode. The sale took place in Mt. Solon, Virginia and was auctioneered by Charley Whetzel.
Processing Information
In order to streamline the process of applying collection numbers, Special Collections staff completed a large-scale renumbering campaign in 2017-2018. This collection was previously cataloged as SC 5039. During this time, the collection was minimally reprocessed in order to simplify the arrangement and description, and rehoused to remove unnecessary oversize boxes. The collection was originally processed in 2012 and described in minute detail, often at the item-level (e.g. obituaries). Some of this description was retained. Description that was deemed irrelevant or superfluous was not retained during reprocessing. Photographs were grouped according to identifications made by the original processor and were housed in plastic sleeves. During reprocessing in 2019, the photographs were removed and housed in archival folders.
Bio/Historical Note
The papers were acquired from the estate of Marshall Dudley Rexrode (1905-2006). Rexrode graduated from Bridgewater College and attended Virginia Tech. He was a prominent farmer and member of the community in Mt. Solon, Virginia. He was a charter member of the North River Ruritan Club and served as their treasurer for 45 years. Rexrode was an elder, deacon, and chairman of the board of trustees for Mossy Creek Presbyterian Church (a historic church established in 1768 in Augusta County). Rexrode was also the secretary-treasurer of the Rockingham County Land Bank Association and assistant secretary-treasurer of Staunton Production Credit Association. He served on the Augusta County Planning Commission three times. Additionally, he was director and president of the Augusta County Farm Bureau Federation, as well as director and president of the Augusta County Petroleum Co-op. His work on various boards, social organizations, and church related activities is evidence of his active community involvement.
Marshall Dudley Rexrode was in possession of his family's papers including those of his father, Dr. Charles Pinkey Rexrode (1871-1929), and his maternal grandfather, Edward Alexander Dudley (1850-1927), and Arthur B. Dudley (1870-1946). Charles P. Rexrode, M.D. was a physician and pharmacist in Crab Bottom, Highland County, Virginia (now Blue Grass, Virginia). The Highland Recorder contains references to Dr. Rexrode treating patients and making house calls during times of emergency. Edward A. Dudley was a prominent farmer and cattle raiser in Highland County and Augusta County, Virginia. Dudley was living in the Churchville area of Augusta County at the time of his death in May 1927.
Also included in this collection are photographs and correspondence relating to Marshall Dudley Rexrode's aunt, Mary Alberta Dudley Brand (1894-1973). Brand and her husband Dr. Louis Christian Brand were Presbyterian Missionaries in Korea from 1924-1938, during the time that Korea was occupied by Japan. Dr. Brand was a physician and third director of the Ellen-Lavine Graham Hospital (now the Kwangju Christian Hospital) in Kwangju, Korea, where he was devoted to the elimination of tuberculosis. The Brand's daughter, Mary Alice Brand Boyle 1924-2006), and son-in-law, Lewis Venable Boyle (1923-2005), are also documented in this collection.
Scope and Content
The Dudley and Rexrode Family Papers contain personal and financial records, photographs, and ephemera related to the Dudely and Rexrode families of Augusta County, Virginia, as well as the related Brand and Boyle families. Tax records, insurance records, and ledgers of family businesses, including C.P. Rexrode's medical practice and A.B and E.A. Dudley's agricultural business, are present. This collection also includes Rexrode, Dudley, and Brand family photographs including photographs of Virginia Tech and the Dudley-Brand family in Korea in the 1930s. Many are unidentified or presumed to be identified. Additionally, the collection contains documents related to community organizations including local ruritan clubs and the Mossy Creek Presbyterian Church in Mt. Solon, Virginia where M. Dudley Rexrode served as a deacon and elder. Printed ephemera in the collection includes a postcard with the label "The summer resort of foreigner at Katsuma Peninsula (Korea)," newspaper clippings of local interest articles and obituaries, and ticket stubs for Magic Kingdom and Disney World.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into four series. Series 1: Family Papers is arranged further into subseries.
Family Papers, 1873-1984 Photographs, 1923-1969 Community Organizations and Events, 1939-1998 Ephemera, 1913-2005Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Business records -- Virginia -- Sources
- Family papers
- Highland County (Va.) -- History -- Sources
- Ledgers (account books)
- Letters (correspondence)
- Merchants -- Virginia -- Records and correspondence
- Mossy Creek Presbyterian Church (Mr. Solon, Va.) -- Records and correspondence
- Physicians -- Virginia -- Records and correspondence
- Rexrode, M. Dudley (Marshall Dudley), 1905-2006
- Rockingham County (Va.) -- History -- Sources
- Virginia -- History, Local -- Sources
- Whetzel, Charlie, 1940-2021
Bibliography
"Attempted Suicide" Highland Recorder . 1903 December 18. p.3.Blair, Charles William. A History of Mossy Creek Presbyterian Church . Bridgewater Beacon Printing, Inc. Bridgewater, VA. 2000.
"Edward A. Dudley" Staunton News Leader . 1927 May 31. p.4.
"History" Kwangju Christian Hospital Website. Accessed 2012 Dec. 5. http://kch.or.kr/eng/history.html.
"M.Dudley Rexrode" Daily News-Record . 2006 January 30. p.10.
"Nonagenarian Rexrode is Ruritans' Citizen of Year." Daily News-Record . 1995 October 23. p.16
"Staunton Man Dies in Korea" Daily News-Record . 1938 March 2. p.8.
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Rexrode, M. Dudley (Marshall Dudley), 1905-2006
- Whetzel, Charlie, 1940-2021
Significant Places Associated With the Collection
- Highland County (Va.) -- History -- Sources
- Rockingham County (Va.) -- History -- Sources
- Virginia -- History, Local -- Sources
Container List
- Sub- 1.1
Edward Alexander Dudley Papers1873-1920
- Mixed Materials [1000886192] box: 1 folder: 1
Land deeds1873-1904
- Mixed Materials [1000886192] box: 1 folder: 2
Invoices and receipts1876-1915
- Mixed Materials [1000886192] box: 1 folder: 3
Promissory notes1884-1912
- Mixed Materials [1000886192] box: 1 folder: 4
Tax payments1887-1912
- Mixed Materials [1000886192] box: 1 folder: 5
Mutual Insurance Company1888-1897
- Mixed Materials [1000886192] box: 1 folder: 6
Correspondence19081920
- Mixed Materials [1000886192] box: 1 folder: 1
- Sub- 1.2
Charles Pinkey Rexrode Papers1902-1959
- Mixed Materials [1000886192] box: 1 folder: 7
Invoices and receipts1902-1959
- Mixed Materials [1000886192] box: 1 folder: 8
Ledger1909-1913
- Mixed Materials [1000886192] box: 1 folder: 9
Ledger1912-1913
- Mixed Materials [1000886192] box: 1 folder: 10
Ledger1913-1918
- Mixed Materials [1000886193] box: 2
Ledger1922-1924
- Mixed Materials [1000886192] box: 1 folder: 11
Medical advertisements1924
- Mixed Materials [1000886192] box: 1 folder: 12
Ledger1924-1928
- Mixed Materials [1000886192] box: 1 folder: 7
- Sub- 1.3
Arthur B. Dudley Papers1914-1961
- Mixed Materials [1000886194] box: 3 folder: 1
Ledger1914-1930
- Mixed Materials [1000886194] box: 3 folder: 2
Financial documents1916-1917
- Mixed Materials [1000886194] box: 3 folder: 3
Ledger1921-1922
- Mixed Materials [1000886194] box: 3 folder: 4
Ledger1925-1927
- Mixed Materials [1000886194] box: 3 folder: 5
Ledger1957-1961
- Mixed Materials [1000886194] box: 3 folder: 1
- Sub- 1.4
Marshall Dudley Rexrode Papers1936-1980
- Mixed Materials [1000886194] box: 3 folder: 6
Diary1936
- Mixed Materials [1000886194] box: 3 folder: 7
Financial documents19361962
- Mixed Materials [1000886194] box: 3 folder: 8
Farm operations novebook1946
- Mixed Materials [1000886194] box: 3 folder: 9
Ledger - personal finances1963-1980
- Mixed Materials [1000886194] box: 3 folder: 6
- Mixed Materials [1000886195] box: 4 folder: 1
Assorted Dudley/Rexrode/Boyle family correspondence1935-1984, undated
- Mixed Materials [1000886195] box: 4 folder: 2
Virginia Techundated
- Mixed Materials [1000886195] box: 4 folder: 3
Agriculture1926, undated
- Mixed Materials [1000886195] box: 4 folder: 4
Possibly Charles Pinkey Rexrode familyundated
- Mixed Materials [1000886195] box: 4 folder: 5
Mountain retreatundated
- Mixed Materials [1000886195] box: 4 folder: 6
Possibly Agnes Rexrodeundated
- Mixed Materials [1000886195] box: 4 folder: 7
Possibly Agnes Rexrode and Margaret Dudley Rexrodeundated
- Mixed Materials [1000886195] box: 4 folder: 8
Possibly Margaret Dudley Rexrodeundated
- Mixed Materials [1000886195] box: 4 folder: 9
Rexrode family with possible identification1969, undated
- Mixed Materials [1000886195] box: 4 folder: 10
Possibly identifiedundated
- Mixed Materials [1000886195] box: 4 folder: 11
Unidentified1923, undated
- Mixed Materials [1000886195] box: 4 folder: 12
Possibly at Mossy Creek Presbyterian Church, Mt. Solon, Virginiaundated
- Mixed Materials [1000886195] box: 4 folder: 13
Negativesundated
- Mixed Materials [1000886195] box: 4 folder: 14
Dr. Louis Brand and Alberta Dudley Brand hand-colored photographs taken in Koreacirca 1927-1934
- Mixed Materials [1000886195] box: 4 folder: 15
Alice Brand and Martha Brandcirca 1928
- Mixed Materials [1000886195] box: 4 folder: 16
Brand family in Koreacirca 1928-1938
- Mixed Materials [1000886195] box: 4 folder: 17
Brand family in Virginiacirca 1942
- Mixed Materials [1000886195] box: 4 folder: 18
North River District Fair and Horse Show1939 October 11
- Mixed Materials [1000886195] box: 4 folder: 19
Mossy Creek Presbyterian Church (Mt. Solon) documents1952-1993
- Mixed Materials [1000886195] box: 4 folder: 20
Mossy Creek Presbyterian Church (Mt. Solon), 200th Anniversary Celebrations1968
- Mixed Materials [1000886195] box: 4 folder: 21
Woodrow Wilson District Ruritan Convention and North River Ruritan Club Handbook1995 October 281998
- Mixed Materials [1000886195] box: 4 folder: 22
Certificate of Incorporation of the North River Telephone Cooperativeundated
- Mixed Materials [1000886195] box: 4 folder: 23
Assorted printed ephemera1913-1970, undated
- Mixed Materials [1000886195] box: 4 folder: 24
Funeral memory books1947-1998Scope and Content
Luther Charles Fultz, 1947; J. Wayne Fairburn, January 1993; Agnes Rexrode, October 1993 (2 copies); Maggie Elizabeth Props, 1995; Richard Craig Dudley, 1998
- Mixed Materials [1000886195] box: 4 folder: 25
Newspaper clippings - local interest articles1948-1984, undated
- Mixed Materials [1000886195] box: 4 folder: 26
Newspaper clippings - wedding announcements1950, undated
- Mixed Materials [1000886195] box: 4 folder: 27
Newspaper clippings - obituaries1985-2005Scope and Content
John H. Earhart (undated), Mabel Rexrode, 1986 March 23; Earl J. Shiflet, 1995 December 14; S. Newton Karicofe, 1996 March 5; Earl T. Swink, 1996 September 10; Clarence E. May, 1997 April 15; Kathleen C. McFall, 1997 December 7; Richard C. Dudley, 1998 May 23; Nancy R. Lewis, 1998 August 25; Garland Miller, 1998 September 7; Rudolph B. Alexander, 1999 June 6; William A. Brooks, 1999 November 16; Francis Dudley, 2000 April 8; Hiram C. Arey, 2000 April 30; Hiwana C. Crompton, 2000 May 4; Richard J. Hevener, 2000 June 12; Roy R. Smith, 2000 November 28 (2); Arthur V. Bartenslayer, 2002 August 11; William J. Moffett Jr., 2002 August 20; Dr. John H. Guss, 2004 September 28; John A. Horn, 2005 May 15