Rufus Medford and Eugenia Mae Shook Medford

Rufus Medford and Eugenia Mae Shook Medford

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This portrait shows Rufus Michael Medford (1878-1955) and wife Eugenia Mae Shook Medford (1879-1935), daughter of Henry Clay Shook and Eugenia Evans Shook, and great, great granddaughter of Jacob Shook (1749-1839) and Isabella Weitzell Shook (1749-1834). After serving in the American Revolutionary War, Jacob Shook and his wife bought land and settled along the Pigeon River in what is now Clyde, N.C. Shook built the earliest known frame dwelling in the area which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Shook-Welch-Smathers House.

Shook Family Photographs

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64134

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Haywood County (N.C.)

5" x 8.5"(dimension)

Picturing Appalachia