Frank Adriance was a doctor in Elmira , NY. He and his wife had a daughter named Linette Angevine Adriance. Linette was an only child. Linette lived with her parents all her life until they passed away. Now comes the strange part .... When Linette was 42 years old, she went to 'visit' a friend in NYC. Several months later she came back home to Elmira with an 'adopted' baby girl. On the birth certificate of the baby girl, dated Feb 26 1926, the child was called FAITH. However, the little girl never went by that name. She is still living so I wont give her name here. If anyone knows about this, they will know who she is anyway. There was NO father listed on the birth certificate. There were rumors about town that this little girl was not adopted but was the natural child of Linette but these rumors were never spoken of around FAITH. After Linette died, Faith asked a friend of her mother's if she had really been adopted. The friend said no, that she was the natural child of her mother. Unfortunately, this friend of Linette's, said that Linette had NEVER said who the father was...at least not to her. Rumors were that the father of the baby was Dr Adriance's cheauffer. It was said that after the baby came home from NYC, the cheauffer disappeared. The strange part of this is that Linette was 41 when she became pregnant....not exactly a babe in the woods. With her father being a physician, the child could have been adopted, or even aborted for that matter, without too much problem. And that certainly would have been a better solution as far as society went Im sure. I feel that perhaps, this child was NOT an accident at all. Linette had no relatives anywhere near and certainly none that she knew. She knew that when her parents died she would be completely alone. Perhaps she decided to remedy this situation by having a child. There are probably lots of people still living who were around when the rumors were flying in the late 1920s in Elmira. Is there anyone out there who knows anything about this, who the cheauffer might have been, was there another possibility of a father, or any other little bit of information? Thanks so much.....FAITH would like to know the answer to this question. [email protected] Unfortunately, I do not have access to any records in Elmira such as city directories, etc.....at the moment.