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Amparo Airs Horr Kingsley
1857 – after 1922 · Mexico · San Francisco · Montana
Three names, two marriages, one court case.
The newspaper report is how her divorce, her remarriage, and her real name survived at all. On 26 November 1889 the Daily Alta California printed Bennett’s petition to cancel Amparo’s alimony — $22.50 a month, later $5 a week — because her new husband in Montana was, he claimed, “abundantly able to provide for her.”
Four children with Bennett — and one of them carried the name forward in an unexpected way.
Maiden name “Airs” — from her son’s death record.
Also recorded as Mary (1880 census) and as Grace Kingsley (1900 census, widowed).
A family story — that Anita’s people ran a brothel south of the border. No record has ever backed it: newspaper archives searched, zero hits. Its only possible home, Amparo’s parents in pre-1865 Mexico, left no records at all.
The path
The places the records name
Beside them
Family
Parents
Not named on this page.
Children
William Bennett Horr 1872–1950Emma 1875–1944
Terena d. 1885, aged nine
Amelia Anita 1879–1974 — the first Anita
Still unknown
Open questions
- Her death — alive in the 1921–22 Society Blue Book; after that, nothing.
- A record of her parents in Mexico before 1865.