Eleanor Orissa Nellie (Dwigans) Adams [1865-1907]

Name/Title

Eleanor Orissa "Nellie" (Dwigans) Adams [1865-1907]

Entry/Object ID

2004.1.9

Description

Eleanor Orissa "Nellie" (Dwigans) Adams [1865-1907] - wife of Richard Miskimins Adams, daughter of Andrew Dwigans and Amanda Pangborn. Reproduction, no photographer listed.

Collection

Betty Elaine (Adams) Kleffner Collection

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1880

Lexicon

Search Terms

Adams family, Dwigans family

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

KLEF0009

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Dwigans, Eleanor Orissa (a/k/a Nellie) [1865-1907]

Provenance

Notes

The Betty Elaine (Adams) Kleffner Collection photographs were 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 photos 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 & Naida Avis White. Source Citation: Eleanor Orissa "Nellie" (Dwigans) Adams [1865-1907], item no. KLEF0009, Betty Elaine (Adams) Kleffner Collection, Greene Connections Archives Project (www.GreeneConnections.com).