Name/Title
Higgins School - Franklin Township, Greene County, PennsylvaniaEntry/Object ID
2020.4.25Description
Higgins School in Franklin Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania.
Pictured [Left-Right]:
BACK - Enoch Parker*, Jesse Lee Shultz [1883-1957], Flossie (Harden) Rush [1880-1957], Sarah Lapping [Teacher], Charlotte (Gump) Mitchell [1882-1907], Deborah Nora (Gump) Cox [1885-1957], Debra Annette "Anna" (Shultz) Kinnan [1886-1959];
MIDDLE - Sherman Ernest Goodwin [1888-1952], Noah Ray Sproat [1886-1964], John Sherman Jacobs [1888-1967], George Gordon Cummins [1886-1966], John Bell Gordon [1888-1928], Roy Owen Shultz [1892-1967], Max Lemley [1893-1918];
FRONT - Auddie (Parker) Gump [1899-1946]**, Clara (Parker) (Roupe) Crites [1892-1949], Blanche Susan (Patterson) Cummins [1890-1981], Oscie Sadie (Shultz) Wood [1889-1964], Ina Cecil (Burwell) Conners [1891-1958], Dawne (Lemley) Tennant [1891-1976], Glenn Flossie (Shultz) Chapman [1894-1944].
*Appears to be a caption error that actually refers to Enos Christopher Parker [1886-1918].
**This student seems likely to be confused with her older sibling Charlotte May Parker [1894-1901] who better fits the pictured child's age at the time of this photograph.
Original, no photographer listed.Collection
Thelma (White) Yeager CollectionAcquisition
Accession
2020.4Acquisition Method
DigitalCredit Line
Thelma (White) YeagerLexicon
Search Terms
Burwell family, Cummins family, Franklin (Greene County, Pa. : Township)--Schools--Higgins School, Goodwin family, Gordon family, Gump family, Harden family, Jacobs family, Lapping family, Lemley family, Parker family, Patterson family, Shultz family, Sproat familyOther Names and Numbers
Other Number
YEAT_AN001_0025Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Provenance
Provenance Detail
Patterson Series - Thelma (White) Yeager CollectionNotes
The Patterson Series of the Thelma (White) Yeager Collection was passed from James L. Patterson [1830-1912] and his wife, Susan Grove [1830-1919], to their son James Lindsey Patterson [1860-1914] and his wife, Jennie Spragg [1861-1922], to their daughters, Blanche Susan (Patterson) Cummins [1890-1981] and Pearle Loreno (Patterson) White [1900-1987], both of whom passed their photographs to Pearle's granddaughter Thelma (White) Yeager who owned and shared the collection with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project in 2005.
Source Citation: Higgins School in Franklin Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania; circa 1898; item no. YEAT_AN001_0025, Patterson Series, Thelma (White) Yeager Collection; Greene Connections Archives Project (GreeneConnections.com).