The following is excerpted from John Walter Wayland’s A history of Shenandoah County, Virginia, published by Shenandoah Publishing House, Strasburg, Virginia, in 1927.
Daniel Warrick Burruss II notes in the Mount Jackson Chamber of Commerce Newsletter, February 2005:  “Prior to the War, Colonel Levi Rinker…was one of the wealthiest men and one of the largest [...]