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Halsey/Helsey from Indiana and Ohio

foreverlines  (View posts) Posted: 4 Jan 2009 10:59PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Halsey, Helsey
I am looking for anyone who is related to, or a desendant of Ambra Halsey Hurt from Indianapolis, Indiana. She was born on June 17, 1890/1892 in Ohio. When Ambra was about a year old she was taken in by Cassie Pitts Davis (later Norton after the death of her first husband Jacob Davis). Ambra and her husband Lewis were missionaries in Africa and lived there most of the time after their marriage. Ambra returned to Africa after his death in 1948; Ambra died in 1972 in DC.
Ambra spelled her last name Halsey while her sister Lula (who I am a desendant of) spelled her name HELSEY; which was the way her mother (Rosa Dixon) spelled it before her second marriage.
Ambra had two daughter, Lois and Virginia. If anyone has any information regarding them or anyone I have mentioned PLEASE contact me. If I am correct Lois died in 1985 but I don't know anything about Virginia; or if either one of them had any desendants.
Ambra met her older sister Lula once, as far as we know, after they were seperated when little. We have a copy of a letter Ambra wrote Lula after she found her in 1912, when Lula was living in Missouri. Ambra mentioned in the letter she was going to write Nevada, Wyandot Co., Ohio, where their father had last been heard of, but as this is the only letter of Ambra's we have a copy of we don't know if she found her father or any of her mother's family except an uncle, (Frank E. Dixon).
Thanks in advance!

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