The evidence suggests that Alvena Trudy Truax went by several names during her lifetime including Truax, Tyrrell and Hilla. When she was born on 3 September 1911 at Blenheim, Kent, Ontario, Canada, her parents were Roy Freeman Truax and Sara Beullah Tyrrell (Tyrella).
8727,8723 Roy Freeman Truax was born on 24 December 1886 at Ridgetown, Kent, Ontario, Canada.
8727 His parents were Freeman Truax and Maud Leighey.
8727 Sara Beullah Tyrrell (Tyrella) was born 15 December 1889 in Blenheim, Kent, Ontario, Canada and died 17 September 1959 at St. Joseph, Berrian County, Michigan at age 69.
8728,8729 Sara Beulah Tyrrell (Tyrella) was a dressmaker at a garment factory.
8724,8725,8726 Apparently Roy Truax and Beullah Tyrrell (Tyrella) never married or, if they did, their marriage was short-lived. On 24 June 1914 Sara Beullah Tyrrell (Tyrella), daughter of Edwin Tyrrell (Tyrella) and Sarah Jane Buck, married Carl R. Hilla, born about 1886 in Astrovia, Germany and the son of William Hilla and Sussana Wible. The marriage occurred at Cheboygan, Cheboygan County, Michigan.
8730,8724 He was a fireman on steamboats.
8724 Young Alvena Trudy Truax lived with her mother and step-father (Carl HIlla) and apparently used the Hilla surname - either because she was adopted by Carl Hilla or for convienience. Alvena Trudy Truax was a seamstress at a garment factory.
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