Collection: Betty Dagenais Collection | ArchivesSpace Public Interface

Scope and Contents

This collection contains genealogical information and photographs relating to the Allison family collected by Betty (Allison) Dagenais. Items include family histories as well as genealogical documents. Some of the family photos date back to the nineteenth century including one unidentified tintype. Most of the photographs have been identified and several have descriptions of the event or location of the photograph. Fred, Zetta, Ed and Velma kept an album of photos taken on a trip to Yellowstone Park including one of Zetta standing next to a bear.

Dates

Creation: 1880s-1990s

Creator

Dagenais, Betty Lou Allison, 1923-2007 (Person)

Biographical / Historical

William Franklin Allison and Rhodilla Seever lived in Buchanan County, Missouri. Their son, Fred Allison married Zetta Faucett in 1910 in Buchanan County. Fred and Zetta moved to Atchison, Kansas where their youngest child, Betty Lou Allison was born on March 12, 1923. She married Lowell F. Dagenais on January 9, 1943. Betty lived her entire life in Atchison where she collected family history information and wrote historical articles and family biographies for over fifty years. Betty L Dagenais died on March 8, 2007.