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Collection Summary
Title
Betty Dagenais Collection
Date
1880s to 1980s
Extent
2 Archival Box
Name and Location of Repository
Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence (Mo.)
Reference code: MGC 1089-BDC
Processed by: Jolene Clark, 2019; finding aid created by Jolene Clark, 2019.
Name of Creator
Betty Dagenais
Biographical History
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.
Scope and Content
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 tin type. 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.
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Collection Inventory
System of Arrangement
These records are arranged in 2 series.
Box 1,
Series 1, genealogical research
Folder 1, The 1761 to 1802 Record of the New Bethel Zion Church of Grimville (Berks Co,
PA)
Folder 2, Ancestors, Descendants & Siblings of Hans David Billman, the Emigrant
Folder 3, Descendants of Isaac Shatto
Folder 4, Filson family
Folder 5, Franklin Roosevelt at Hyde Park postcards
Folder 6, Genealogy documents
Folder 7, Germanna Colonies in Virginia
Folder 8, History and Records of Weisenberg Church, Weisenberg Township (now Leigh
Co, PA)
Folder 9, James Henry Foster
Folder 10, Kemper Family
Folder 11, Our Ellison Kinfolk by Carl Grayson Ellison
Folder 12, Mount Sterling Papers/Allison Family
Folder 13, My Grandfather and I by Faucett W Ross
Folder 14, The Nunnemacher Family by Keith A. Nonemaker
Folder 15, Pitts Family, Kentucky and Missouri
Folder 16, Remembering by Florence Marian Fletcher
Box 2,
Folder 17, Trapp Family History
Folder 18, A Virginian in the Continental Line by George J. and Mary L. Goddard
Folder 19, West Family Register
Folder 20, Womack
Series 2, photographs
Folder 1, Faucett, Foster, and Allison family photos
Folder 2, Allison family photographs
Folder 3, Album of photos of Allison family at Yellowstone Park
Folder 4, Misc. photos
Folder 5, Negatives
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Rights and Access
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use by appointment.
Physical Access
Most records within this collection are housed within file folders.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the Midwest Genealogy Center.
Languages and Scripts of the Material
Materials in the collection are entirely in English.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was donated by Diane Pepper.
Accruals
No further accruals are expected for this collection.
Existence and Location of Originals
Originals owned by the Midwest Genealogy Center.
Notes
The following sources were consulted during the preparation of the biographical history:
Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census.
Ancestry.com. Missouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002.
“Betty L. Dagenais,” obituary. Atchison Globe, March 10, 2007, p. 2.
www.newspaperarchive.com
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