James Buchanan Rees and Elizabeth Bettie (Furr) Rees family

Photograph

Greene Connections

Name/Title

James Buchanan Rees and Elizabeth "Bettie" (Furr) Rees family

Entry/Object ID

2022.8.11

Description

James Buchanan Rees and Elizabeth "Bettie" (Furr) Rees family, pictured [Left-Right]: BACK – Elsie Huffman (Rees) Toothman, Edna Furr Rees, Harriet Ellsworth (Rees) Harlow; FRONT - Jessica Isabelle (Rees) Huston. Original, professional photograph from Fisher’s, Photographic Art Studio, Keyser, W. Va.

Photograph Details

Subject Person or Organization

Rees, Elsie Huffman [1890-1982], Rees, Edna Furr [1884-1903], Rees, Harriet Ellsworth [1887-1992], Rees, Jessica Isabelle [1893-1966]

Collection

Melvin Lee Toothman Collection

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1895

Place

Neighborhood

West Virginia / Mineral County / Keyser

Lexicon

Search Terms

Rees family

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

TOOL_AN002_0003

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Rees Series - Melvin Lee Toothman Collection

Notes

The Rees Series was passed from James Buchanan Rees [1858-1930] and his first wife, Elizabeth "Bettie" Furr [1857-1903], to their daughter, Elsie Huffman Rees [1890-1982], and her husband, Glenn Jacob Roy Thornton Toothman Sr. [1891-1967], to their son, Melvin Lee Toothman [1922-2015], who owned and shared the photographs with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project in 2007. SOURCE CITATION: James Buchanan Rees and Elizabeth "Bettie" (Furr) Rees family, pictured [Left-Right]: BACK – Elsie Huffman (Rees) Toothman, Edna Furr Rees, Harriet Ellsworth (Rees) Harlow, FRONT - Jessica Isabelle (Rees) Huston; circa 1895, image by Fisher’s, Photographic Art Studio, Keyser, W. Va.; item no. TOOL_AN002_0003, Rees Series, Melvin Lee Toothman Collection, Greene Connections Archives Project (www.GreeneConnections.com).