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Pearl (Borden) Keller

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Title

Pearl (Borden) Keller

Subject

Keller, Pearl Rebecca Borden (1881-1961)

Description

Portrait photograph of Pearl Rebecca (Borden) Keller as a young woman.

Her parents were William and Caroline "Carrie" Virginia (Hammon) Borden. She grew up in Toms Brook.

She married Joseph Ernest Fravel (1882-1941) in 1904. They raised an adopted daughter who was also Joseph's niece.

She married for the second time in 1950. By then, she was a practical nurse, still lived in Toms Brook, and was well into her later years. Her husband was Benjamin Franklin Keller, a widowed farmer also living in Toms Brook.

Creator

Morrison Studio

Source

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Publisher

Shenandoah County Library

Date

Undated

Contributor

Identified in 2010 by Fay Hiner, a niece of the subject, who had similar photographs at home.

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Identifier

021048

Original Format

Glass Negative

Citationzork

Morrison Studio, “Pearl (Borden) Keller,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed December 11, 2025, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/50568.

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