A Guide to the J.H. Tisinger Collection

Compiled by Zachary Hottel

August 2, 2023

Descriptive Summary

Repository: Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia, USA

Title: J.H. Tisinger Collection

Date Range: 1883-1935

Collection Number: 2023-0006

Extent: 1 ½ size Legal Document Box (.5 linear feet)

Language: English

Abstract: Documents, including financial and estate documents for which he was executor, related to J.H. Tisinger (Joseph Homer Tisinger) and the Mt. Jackson community.

    

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions: This collection is open to researchers without restrictions. Researchers must register and agree to all copyright laws and archives policies before using the collection. Please contact the Shenandoah County Library before visiting to use this collection.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of item] J.H. Tisinger, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia, USA.

Acquisition Information: Purchased from Laughlin Auctions, November 30 2022. Unknown seller.

Processing Information: Items were received stored in plastic sheet protectors. Documents were removed from sheet protectors and found to be damp. Items were then air dried. Various documents were paper clipped together. All items clipped together or stored in different sheet protectors were filed as originally sorted.

  

Biographical/Historical Note

Joseph Homer Tisinger was born February 28. 1853 in Mt. Jackson Virginia. He obtained a Masters Degree from the New Market Polytechnic Institute and became a school teacher for several years. Later Tisinger worked as a clerk for the National Bank of Mt. Jackson and then operated a meat business with William Patterson. At the time of his 1938 death he lived and operated a fam which he had owned since 1905. He was married to Julia Henkel of New Market and had three sons and five daughters.

 

Joseph Tisinger served as executor to several estates, including one George Washington Walters (1812-1891).

 

Bibliography

 

“Joseph Homer Tisinger,” Find a Grave. Accessed August 2, 2023. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63921509/joseph-homer-tisinger.

 

“George Washington Walters,” Find a Grave. Accessed August 2, 2023. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22934865/george-washington-walters

 

 

Scope and Content

The J.H. Tisinger Collection contains twelve legal size folders and one oversize folder of documents including financial papers, court documents, business records, and other materials from Tisinger and the estates he managed, including that of George Washington Walters.

 

Box 1: Folder 1.1-1.12

OVERSIZE Folder 1

 

Location:

Box 1: Stack 10, Shelf 2

OVERSIZE Folder 1: Map Case Drawer E, Folder 13

 

Arrangement

Items were housed based on their presence in plastic sheet protectors and/or paper clipped together. Folders were then arranged chronologically.

 

Inventory

 

Box 1: 38758101743382

Folder 1.1: Washington Walters Estate Documents, J.H. Tisinger Administrator, 1883-1892 1 of 6

Folder 1.2: Washington Walters Estate Documents, J.H. Tisinger Administrator, 1883-1892 2 of 6

Folder 1.3: Washington Walters Estate Documents, J.H. Tisinger Administrator, 1883-1892 3 of 6

Folder 1.4: Washington Walters Estate Documents, J.H. Tisinger Administrator, 1883-1892 4 of 6

Folder 1.5: Washington Walters Estate Documents, J.H. Tisinger Administrator, 1883-1892 5 of 6

Folder 1.6: J.H. Tisinger, Financial Documents, 1899-1923

Folder 1.7: J.H. Tisinger Trustee Financial Documents, 1892-1908

Folder 1.8: J.H. Tisinger, Circuit Court Receipts, 1893

Folder 1.9: J.H. Tisinger, Shenandoah Co-Operative Farm Bureau Inc. Receipts, 1928-1935

Folder 1.10: Clerk of the Court Receipts, J.H. Tisinger, 1891-1899

Folder 1.11: Postcard sent to J.H. Tisinger, 1888-1889, Mt. Jackson Virginia

Folder 1.12: “Mt. Jackson Circulating Library” Stock Certificate, J.H. Tisinger, February 6 1891

 

OVERSIZE Folder 1 38758101743374: Washington Walters Estate Documents, J.H. Tisinger Administrator, 1883-1892 6 of 6. Map Case Drawer E, Folder 13.