This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Halsey, Phipps, Rutherford Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jAC.2ACE/638.2.1 Message Board Post: No, actually Mettie was a daughter of Carrie Maude Phipps, who was a sister of Mazie Jane Phipps - Mazie was the wife of Benjamin D. Halsey. Apparently Mazie and Benjamin Halsey adopted their niece, although I have not been able to locate Mettie actually living with them, or locate her using the Halsey name. In the 1920 census she is "Mettie B. Phipps" and is identified as Phipps in her obituary. Maude later married a Harvey Rutherford and their children are listed as brothers/sisters of Mettie in Mettie's obit - I suspect that Harvey Rutherford was the father of Mettie and Fairbanks Phipps (another child born to Maude before she married Harvey Rutherford).