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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Agnes V. Ackley: Birth: 17 JUL 1892 in California. Death: 03 JUN 1967 in Humbolt Co., California

  2. Charles Sylvester Ackley: Birth: 05 SEP 1895 in Glendale, Douglas Co., Oregon. Death: 25 NOV 1957 in San Francisco, California

  3. Oscar Ackley: Death: BEF 1900


Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Mary A. Stevens: Birth: MAR 1900 in prob. Corning, Tehama Co., California.

  2. George William Stevens: Birth: 09 AUG 1901 in prob. Tehama Co., California. Death: 15 OCT 1962 in Live Oak, Sutter Co., California (or Lassen Co.)

  3. Alice Marguerite Stevens: Birth: 02 APR 1904 in Corning, Tehama, California. Death: 25 NOV 1971 in Sacramento, Sacramento Co., California


Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Alice Marguerite Stevens: Birth: 02 APR 1904 in Corning, Tehama, California. Death: 25 NOV 1971 in Sacramento, Sacramento Co., California

  2. Harvey Cornelius Halsey: Birth: 14 OCT 1905 in Tehama Co., California. Death: 07 MAR 1907 in Tehama Co., California

  3. Marion Francis Holsey: Birth: 01 APR 1907 in Red Bluff, Tehama Co., California. Death: 10 APR 1970 in Hayward, Alameda Co., California

  4. Person Not Viewable

  5. Person Not Viewable

  6. Harry Halsey: Birth: 07 MAR 1912 in California. Death: 07 APR 1969 in Charmichael, Sacramento Co., California


Family
Marriage:
Sources
1. Title:   Marriage Records of San Benito County, California
Page:   Book 2, page 155.
2. Title:   1900 United States Federal Census
Page:   1900 United States Federal Census
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 18;
3. Title:   1880 United States Federal Census
Page:   1880 United States Federal Census
Author:   Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publication:   Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited;
4. Title:   1910 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1910; Census Place: Red Bluff Ward 1, Tehama, California; Roll: ; Page: ; Enumeration District: ; Image: .
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original data - Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Was;
5. Title:   Tehama County Marriage Book G
Page:   page 350

Notes
a. Note:   SOURCE:
 The following infromation was compiled from numerous sources, and much of the credit goes to Joan R. Fitch (Gertrude's grand daughter).
  Gertrude appears in the 1880 census as a 4 year old child attending school. She was living at home with her 2 older sisters and her parents. The census shows that she was born in Nebraska and her sisters were born in Michigan.
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 By 1890 Gertrude was in California as she was recorded as being married to Sylvester S. Ackley on March 3, 1890 in Emmett, San Benito Co., California. witnessed by G. W. Call. Both bride and groom were said to be from Emmett. Sylvester was shown as age 35 and Gertrude was shown as age 17 or 18. In March of 1890 her actual age was almost 14.
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 In the 1900 census taken at Corning, Tehama Co., California Gertrude stated she was born in Utah (actually Nebraska) and she had two children from a previous marriage to Mr. Ackley, they were Agnes age 6 and Charles age 4. In the same census she was newly married to Henry Stevens with a new baby girl, yet to be named, age 4 months. She went on to state that she had given birth to 4 children however 3 were still living in 1900. At the time of the 1900 census Gertrude's ex-husband Samuel Sylvester Ackley was living in Squaw Valley Township, Siskiyou Co., California with his sister Bertha and various other children of his, from another marriage.
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 By May 1904 Gertrude was married to Harvey Thomas Halsey and was living in Red Bluff, Tehama Co. Ca. there were at least 4 children Gertrude brought to the marriage and 4 other children they had together.
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 The 1910 census of Tehama Co., California finds the family in Red Bluff, at 541 Breckenridge Drive, as follows:
 Halsey, Harvey, head, male, white, 35, married 6 yrs., b. CA, fa. b. MO, mo. b. Iowa , laborer, odd jobs
 ", Gertrude, wife, female, white, 34, married 6 yrs., 3 children all surviving, b. UT, fa. b. France, mo. b. US
 ", Alice, daughter, female, white, 5, single, b. CA, fa. b. CA, mo. b. UT
 ", Marion, son, male, white, 3, single, b. CA, fa. b. CA, mo. b. UT
 ", James M., son, male, white, 1, single, b. CA, fa. b. CA, mo. b. UT
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 With all the strain on her marriage, and Harvey being gone much of the time, Gertrude found herself unable to adequately care for the children, and the County took them to be adopted. Gertrude later came to get Harry (the youngest), and Alice ran away from the orphanage to be with her mother again. The other children are believed to have been adopted by other families. Marion was raised by the Latimers.
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 Gertrude sued for divorce on September 5, 1919. (Butte Co., California : Suit #807R).
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 The 1920 census finds Gertrude Halsey living in Chico, Butte Co., California with her daughter Alice and son Harry. The address was 4701 9th. Street. The census shows her occupation as building janitor and Alice was working at a match factory (likely Diamond Match of Chico). Gertrude E. was 43, Alice M. 15 and Harry D. 7. Gertrude indicates she was a widow, however she wasn't, she was divorced from Harvey. Harvey lived until the year 1930. ( Butte Co., ED. 10, SH. 14 A, Dated January 15, 1920 ).
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 The 1930 census shows Gertrude and her family living in Chico Township, Central Portion, Butte Co., California (ED. 12, Sht. 10B).
 The census taker had very poor penmanship and Gertrude's name is illegible. Best guess is Rice Stella?. She went on to state she was 53 years old, born in Utah and did not know in which state her parents were born. She was renting her home at $10 per month and had no occupation. Gertrude's daughter was divorced from Merl Kelly by 1930 and appears with Gertrude as Alice (Bruce?) age 26, widowed. Alice had a job as a canner at the local nut company. Alice's son Harold Kelly, age 3 1/2, was with the family as was Harry Durett, age 18, Gertrude's youngest child.
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 Sometime after the 1930 census Gertrude married a man by the name of John D. Rice in Chico Butte Co., Ca.
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 Some recollections of Gertrude is that she had dark hair, was compactly built, and she would roll her own cigarettes.
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 Gertrude's Obituary, March 29, 1937, Chico Enterprise Record:
 Mrs. Gertrude Estella Rice Called by Death
 Mrs. Gertrude Estella Rice, 60, a native of Ogden, Utah, and a resident here for the last three months died last night at the home of her daughter Mrs. S. A. Bailey, 3825 Fifth avenue.
 Survivors aside from the local daughter, include the Widower John D. Rice, another daughter Mrs. Clyde Lacey of Eureka; three sons, Charles S. Ackley of Nelson, George Stevens of Winters and Harry Durette of Sacramento and three grandchildren.
 Funeral services will be held at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon in the chapel of Westfall Funeral Home, the Rev. L. G. Morony of the First Baptist church officiating.
 Burial will be in the Chico cemetery.



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