Person:Hortense Albert (1)

Her birth date needs confirming; it's two before the marriage of her parents. Their marriage date is from the Louisiana Marriage Index.

As oldest, raised the rest of the family, especially Henrietta and her younger siblings, after the death of the mother, Henrietta Lowrie.

When Henrietta was about 14, Hetty or Phenie took her and her siblings to the church and the priest about getting Catholic education; the priest said it was too late; she should have brought the children in much earlier.

Went to school in New Orleans, supposedly at a Catholic convent school.

First husband was a Protestant, but Hetty returned to the Catholic church later.

1920: Hortense Abbott, widow, 35, living with father and daughter (Henrietta, 16) on Scioto.

1930: Hortense Blakley, 45, living with Casper Blakley at 3011 Clendura, Cincinnati, OH, ED 126

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Eleanore Sess Interview 1999.