Sons of Richard Miskimins Adams and his wife, Eleanor Orissa (Dwigans) Adams

Name/Title

Sons of Richard Miskimins Adams and his wife, Eleanor Orissa (Dwigans) Adams

Entry/Object ID

2004.1.15

Description

[Left-Right]: Ralph Adams, Vern "Bill" Adams - sons of Richard Miskimins Adams and his wife, Eleanor Orissa (Dwigans) Adams. Reproduction, no photographer listed.

Collection

Betty Elaine (Adams) Kleffner Collection

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1900

Lexicon

Search Terms

Adams family

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

KLEF0015

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Adams, Ralph [1897-1973]

Person or Organization

Adams, Vern (a/k/a Bill) [1898-1998]

Provenance

Notes

The Betty Elaine (Adams) Kleffner Collection was passed in large part from Elijah Adams [1816-1877] and his wife, Harriet Buchanan [1822-1890], to their son, Richard Miskimins Adams [1864-1942], and his first wife, Eleanor Orissa "Nellie" Dwigans [1865-1907], to their son, Vern "Bill" Adams [1898-1998], and his wife, Opal LaVerne Hale [1905-1946], to their daughter, Betty Elaine (Adams) Kleffner [1925-2003], and her husband, Leo Henry Kleffner [1914-1996], to their son, John Kleffner, who owned and shared the collection with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project in 2004. Betty also received and shared images passed from her first cousin, Lorraine Ermie (Adams) Wenner, daughter of Ralph Adams and Naida Avis White. SOURCE CITATION: Sons of Richard Miskimins Adams and his wife, Eleanor Orissa (Dwigans) Adams; item no. KLEF0015, Betty Elaine (Adams) Kleffner Collection; Greene Connections Archives Project (GreeneConnections.com).