♀Mary Sefhelia Delahorne

Mary Sefhelia Delahorne (1 July 1921 – before October 1990) was a Louisiana woman, the only daughter of Jeffrey Delahorne and Ida Serrette and the twin sister of Shefton Anthony Delahorne; her younger brothers Floyd and Lloyd were twins as well. She was the elder sister of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014).

Early life

Her father died in the autumn of 1929, when she was eight. In April 1930 the census listed her mother as the wife of Reauld Billeaud, though no record of their marriage has been found, and it found Mary, recorded as “Maria T. Delehan”, aged eight, as a pupil at St. Mary’s Home, a Catholic children’s home in Lafayette staffed by Irish-born nuns. The same page lists her younger twin brothers Floyd and Lloyd and a “Joseph C.”, also eight, who was almost certainly her twin Shefton. Family accounts differ on why: one holds that their widowed mother could not afford to keep the children for a time; another, that she had a new partner. By 1935 the family was together again at Crowley, Acadia Parish. In July 1939 a Crowley society column reported a party at her mother’s house in honor of “her twin son and daughter, Shefton and Sefhelia Delahorne”, turning eighteen.

Marriage

She married Denny Roy (1915–1992); the 1950 census finds her as his wife in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. She died before her mother, whose obituary in October 1990 names her as the late Mary Roy.

Notes

The 1940 census gives her age as ten, which does not fit her other records. The 1930 census, which gives eight, the 1939 birthday notice and the 1950 census all agree with a birth in July 1921, as do her twin brother’s own records.