Eleanor "Nelly" DESHA

Eleanor "Nelly" was born in 1772 in <, Monroe, Pa>.  Eleanor "Nelly"'s father was Robert DESHA and her mother is Eleanor WHEELER.  Her paternal grandparents are Robert DESHA and Mary Elizabeth EVERFIELDT; her maternal grandparents were Joseph WHEELER and Maria Holmes. She had seven brothers and four sisters, named John, Benjamin, Robert, Joseph Holmes, James, Robert, Benjamin II, Nancy, Mary "Polly", Phoebe Ann and Elizabeth "Betsy".  She is the sixth oldest of the twelve children.