Elva Darah Sheets

Background

Elva Sheets was born on May 24, 1898 in Huntington County, Indiana, United States; the daughter of James and Lottie J. Bailey Summers.

Education

Sheets received her bachelor’s degree from Bradley University in 1919.

Career

Elva Darah Sheets spent her entire life on a farm in Indiana. She visited the ocean for the first time at the age of fifty, and developed a continuing interest in the sea and in shells and marine life. Her only book, The Fascinating World of the Sea: Circling the Globe for the Wild Seashell, reflected this avocation. She traveled all around the world seven different times, in search of new and unique shells.

Achievements

• Elva Darah Sheets is particularly known for her book The Fascinating World of the Sea: Circling the Globe for the Wild Seashell.

Works

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  • The Fascinating World of the Sea: Circling the Globe for the Wild Seashell 1974

Membership

Elva Sheets belonged to the International Oceanographic Foundation, Smithsonian Associates, and Conchologists of America, among others.

Connections

Elva Darah Sheets married on November 21, 1921, and had two children, Mary and Sumner.

Father:

James Summers

Mother:

Lottie J. Bailey Summers

child:

Mary Sheets

child:

Sumner Sheets