James Buchanan Rees and Elizabeth (Furr) Rees family
Name/Title
James Buchanan Rees and Elizabeth (Furr) Rees family
Entry/Object ID
2022.8.9
Description
James Buchanan Rees family, pictured:
1) James Buchanan Rees [1858-1930] - husband of 1. Elizabeth "Bettie" Furr & 2. Grace Sheetz, son of Rev. William Davis Rees & Harriet Ann Johnson;
2) Elizabeth "Bettie" (Furr) Rees [1857-1903] - wife of James Buchanan Rees, daughter of Benjamin Franklin Furr & Hannah McClaughery;
3) Armazinda [-?-] Gates;
4) Hannah (McClaughery) Furr - wife of Benjamin Franklin Furr;
5) Rev. William Davis Rees [1821-1899] - husband of Harriet Ann Johnson;
6) Sarah Anna Rees - daughter of Rev. William Davis Rees & Harriet Ann Johnson
7) James Harold Rees - son of James Buchanan Rees & Elizabeth "Bettie" Furr;
8) Harriet Ellsworth (Rees) Harlow - daughter of James Buchanan Rees & Elizabeth "Bettie" Furr;
9) Jessica Isabelle (Rees) Huston - daughter of James Buchanan Rees & Elizabeth "Bettie" Furr;
10) Edna Furr Rees [1884-1903] - daughter of James Buchanan Rees & Elizabeth "Bettie" Furr;
11) Elsie Huffman (Rees) Toothman [1890-1982] - daughter of James Buchanan Rees & Elizabeth "Bettie" Furr.
Reproduction, no photographer listed.
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; circa 1898; item no. TOOL_AN002_0001, Rees Series, Melvin Lee Toothman Collection, Greene Connections Archives Project (www.GreeneConnections.com).
