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| Birth: | 8 Mar 1904 in Potter Township,Polk Co.,Ar |
| Death: | 23 Oct 1985 in San Antonio,Bexar Co.,Tx |
| Sex: | F |
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| Burial: 2 Nov 1985 Osceola,Mississippi Co.,Ar |
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Individual:
!Birth certificate in possession of son, John A. Mahey
!Death certificate in possession of son, John A. Mahey
!For wedding announcements, see Mahey Family Record Book pp. 74, 87,
106, 114.
Subject divorced from Manasseh Arnold Mahey, Armstrong Co., Pa., 16
Apr 1956.
!Divorce papers in possession of son, John A. Mahey.
!CENSUS: 1910, Westville, Adair Co., OK.
!Data concerning Birdie Ann (Bernyce) Holdar Mahey, and for her
parents and
siblings, is derived largely from manuscript account of this
family's early
life written by Birdie Ann in 1975: Holder-Thacker Genealogy. The
original
copy is in the possession of her son, John A. Mahey (1989).
!Concerning her name variations: Following the death of her mother,
Lenora
Thacker Holder, 22 Dec 1914, Birdie Ann and all her younger siblings
were
placed in foster homes or adopted in Russellville, Arkansas. Birdie
first
lived with a family by the name of Mallory, where she first adopted
the named,
Bernyce. Later she was sent to live with the Jennings M. Henry
family, where
she used the name Anna Bernyce Henry, "Anna" being Mrs. Henry's
first name.
When she married Manasseh Arnold Mahey in 1927 she used the name,
Bernyce H.
Mahey, the "H" standing for either Holdar or Henry. Following her
divorce, she
continued using the name, Bernyce H. Mahey.
!From manuscript notes of her early life:
!Birdie Ann (Bernyce) first recounts the circumstances of
homesteading in
Westville, OK, of live on the family farm, and of her mother's
sudden death atChristmas, 1914. The next fall (1915) her father,
Franklin takes the eldest
son, James King, with him and departs for a new home near Tucumcari,
New
Mexico, land apparently traded for the Oklahoma homestead. The
younger
children are placed in the care of their older married sister, Helen
Selina
Cora, and her husband, Frank Eads. For the next year Frank Eads,
with his wife
and wife's siblings move from place to place as Frank finds work as
a farm
laborer. By the summer of 1916 they are on a farm near Prairie
Grove in
Washington County, Arkansas. At the end of summer Frank (without
telling his
wife) signs over all five children to the Childrens' Aid Society of
New York
Co.,
and they are taken to Russellville, Arkansas to be placed with
foster or
adoptive parents.]
! Birdie Ann (author of this chronicle) was first taken in by a
family
named Mallory (Frank Mallory) who lived on the outskirts of
Russellville on a
farm. She was loved by them, but shortly after Christmas, 1916, the
Mallorys
decided that their farm was not succeeding, and decided to return to
Nebraska
where, formerly, Frank had been a baker. The Children's Aid Society
would not
give permission to remove Birdie Ann to another state, so she was -
once again
- taken back to the Bradley Boarding House. The man who placed the
children
came back to the boarding house with a baby for a local dentist, and
while
there, took Birdie (whom the Mallorys called Bernyce)to the home of
Mr. and
Mrs. Jennings M. Henry. The Henrys had several farms outside of
town and a
prosperous business in the center of Russellville (Henry Brothers)
trading
mules and dealing in farm products. They had four young sons:
Lamont, 8;
Milton, 6; and twins, Arnold and Andrew, 3. This was the home in
which Bernyce
(Birdie Ann) lived until her marriage in 1927. When, in April 1956,
she
divorced her husband, Manasseh Arnold Mahey, she asked her attorney
if, never
having changed her name legally, there was any problem. He assured
here there
was not. Having been both a Holdar and a Henry, she then decided
after the
divorce to use the name, Bernyce H. Mahey. "
!Bernyce's life with the Henrys had both positive and negative
aspects. She
was given a comfortable home, but was consistently required to look
after the
younger children. During her freshman year in high school she was
told by the
Henrys that they could not afford to send her all the way through
high school.
She
faced this announcement by taking an equivalency examination that
qualified her
to teach school on the eights grade level, and prepared by spending
the
following summer at the Bernice Mine school near Dardenelle,
Arkansas. At the
same time she was determined to earn her high school diploma. She
did so my
attending Arkansas Tech the following winter term on an accelerated
schedule,
earning enough credits to combine her junior and senior years into
one. By the
summer of 1922 she was attending the State Normal School in Conway,
and then
went on to a teaching job in the West Ward School, Russellville in
the fall of
1922.
!It was during the summer of 1922, at Conway, that she chanced to
meet her fist
cousin, Irma, daughter of Uriel Thacker, who was also a student
there. Through
this chance contact Bernyce finally located her father in New
Mexico. She
corresponded with him, but was unable to visit him prior to his
death in 1924.
She soon was in contact with her brother, Jim, however, and from
that time
onward never again lost touch with her family.]
!Following her marriage in June 1927, Bernyce returned with her
husband to his
family home in Clarion, Pennsylvania. In 1943 the family moved to
Pittsburgh,
Pa. where Manasseh followed various pursuits while Bernyce worked as
a clerk in
the womens' department of Verner's Shoe Store in downtown
Pittsburgh. In 1950
the family moved back to Clarion, where Bernyce worked for the
Pennsylvania
Department of Public Assistant as a Visiting Social Worker. She
continued
working in Clarion until 1954 when she moved to Kittanning, Pa. She
remained
in Kittanning, continuing her work with the Pa. Dept. of Public
Assistance,
until 1960. At the urging of her son, John A. Mahey who was then a
Capt. in
the U. S. Air Force stationed in Sacramento, Calif., Bernyce took
early
retirement and went to make her home with him. She continued living
with John
until her death from a cerebral stroke on 23 Oct 1985. According to
her
instructions, her body was cremated, and at the invitation of her
niece,
Frances Oates Little, the ashes were interred in the cemetery at
Osceola,
Arkansas, next to her sister, Mae Pauline Holdar Oates.]
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