Stone Schoolhouse, Whiteley Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania

Name/Title

Stone Schoolhouse, Whiteley Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania

Entry/Object ID

2019.7.8

Description

Stone Schoolhouse, Whiteley Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania. [Left-Right]: BACK - Ida Staggers [teacher], horse, Charles Shultz, horse, Vada (Shriver) Patterson; MIDDLE - James Zimmerman, Charles Earl Smith, Frank Thompson, Elvin Esta Ely, Margaret (Zimmerman) Jacobs, Mary Elizabeth (Ely) Orndoff, Ruth (Ely) Spragg; FRONT - Eva Shriver, Ruth (Orndoff) Taylor, Lucy Edith (Ely) Meighen, Mamie (Shriver) Zimmerman, John Lynn Crawford Gordon Meighen, Elizabeth (Orndoff) Miller, Lida May (Smith) Varner, James Ely.

Collection

Sarah Margaret (Varner) Closser Collection

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1896

Lexicon

Search Terms

Ely family, Horses, Meighen family, Orndoff family, Shriver family, Smith family, Staggers family, Whiteley (Greene County, Pa. : Township)--Schools, Zimmerman family

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

CLOS0008

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Ely, Elvin Esta

Person or Organization

Ely, James H.

Person or Organization

Ely, Lucy Edith [1891-1922]

Person or Organization

Ely, Mary Elizabeth

Person or Organization

Ely, Ruth

Person or Organization

Meighen, John Lynn Crawford Gordon [1888-1983]

Person or Organization

Orndoff, Elizabeth

Person or Organization

Orndoff, Ruth

Person or Organization

Shriver, Eva

Person or Organization

Shriver, Mamie [1890-1951]

Person or Organization

Shriver, Vada

Person or Organization

Shultz, Charles

Person or Organization

Smith, Charles Earl

Person or Organization

Smith, Lida May [1891-1981]

Person or Organization

Staggers, Ida [1871-1938]

Person or Organization

Thompson, Frank

Person or Organization

Zimmerman, James [1889-1945]

Person or Organization

Zimmerman, Margaret Emma [1885-1979]

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Varner-Closser Series - Sarah Margaret (Varner) Closser Collection

Notes

The Sarah Margaret (Varner) Closser Collection photographs were passed from Joseph Varner [1828-1896] and his wife, Elizabeth Jane Kennedy, to their son James Leander Varner [1858-1952] and his wife, Laura Dell Wilson [1870-1949], to their son Arleigh Ray Varner [1888-1986] and his wife, Lida May Smith [1890-1981], to their daughter Sarah Margaret Varner, wife of Ernest Ray Closser Jr. [1923-1976], who owned and shared the photographs with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project in 2006. SOURCE CITATION: Stone Schoolhouse, Whiteley Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania; item no. CLOS0008, Sarah Margaret (Varner) Closser Collection; Greene Connections Archives Project (GreeneConnections.com).