Heavens to Betsy (1878)

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   DARE has "heavens to Bets(e)y" from Cooke HUCKLEBERRIES (1891).  It's listed as "etymology unknown."
   MAKING OF AMERICA-CORNELL is the only database that has it, and there are three early Cooke cites.


 Bookmarkable URL for this journal article:  http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABK4014-0057-80

Cal Culver and the Devil, by Rose Terry Cooke: pp. 574-586
p. 582 1 match of 'heavens to bets*'

  in: Title: Harper's new monthly magazine. / Volume 57, Issue 340
Publisher: Harper & Bros. Publication Date: September 1878
City: New York Pages: 962 page images in vol.
This entire journal issue:  http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABK4014-0057&byte=116030839

("Heavens-to-Betsy!  You don't think I ever see a copper of her cash, do ye?")