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Countess Eleanor Jenckes Roelker, author

Also Known As: "Eleanor Tweed", "Countess Eleanor Palffey", "Greene Roelker"
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Birthplace: Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island, United States
Death: October 04, 1952 (62)
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Burial: Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of William Greene Roelker and Eleanor Roelker
Wife of Count Paul Palffy ab Erdod
Ex-wife of Harrison Tweed
Mother of Eleanor Winthrop von Metzler and Katharine Winthrop "Kay" Tweed
Sister of William Greene Roelker, Jr. and Edith Goddard Curtis (Roelker)
Half sister of Frederick Edmonds Coudert Roelker

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About Countess Eleanor Jenckes Roelker, author

In an extensive autobiographical interview Kay Tweed also talks about her mother, Eleanor: http://www.mvmagazine.com/article.php?23523 .



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  • Eleanor and Charles were married on 24 June 1914. They were divorced in June 1928. See The New York Times, Tuesday, August 28, 1928, page 25.
  • Eleanor and Count Palffy ab Erdod were married on 25 August 1928 in Czechoslovakia. After the wedding they went to reside at their estate of Budmerice in the Pezinok district, Bratislava region of Slovakia. See The New York Times, Tuesday, August 28, 1928, page 25. During her marriage to Count Palffy (which ended in divorce, she resided in Czechoslovakia and Poland, and traveled extensively throughout Europe. After the fall of France during World War Twon, Eleanor returned to the United States and resided in Washington, D.C., where she volunteered time as a nurse's aide in the Red Cross and a lecturer.
  • Eleanor's birth and death information are available in her obituary in The New York Times, Sunday, October 5, 1952, page 88.
  • Also see https://www.myheritage.com/matchingresult-f5c36da3795ded33737c83714...
  • In 1948, Eleanor wrote Largely Fiction, a book about her years in New York, Europe, and Washington, D.C. She wrote other books, among them The Lady and The Painter.
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Countess Eleanor Jenckes Roelker, author's Timeline

1890
July 3, 1890
Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island, United States
1915
December 31, 1915
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, United States
1920
January 16, 1920
Manhattan, New York County, New York, United States
1952
October 4, 1952
Age 62
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
1952
Age 61
Governer Greene Lot (Private), Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island, United States