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[Harguess, Dale]

Is there anyone on this list who might be an expert on finding early divorces?  My grandmother got married the first time in about 1914 in Walla Walla Washington, although she was living in Weston, Oregon at the time.  Later she supposedly married my grandfather but I have never found a marriage record.  She did, however, divorce him and I do have those divorce papers.  In them she gives her marriage date to him as the same date that she married her first husband but gives the place as Portland.  I know that she was in Portland in 1918 because I found her living with her first husband’s brother in the City directory.  Her first husband married two more times with his second wife dying and being buried in the Old Pioneer cemetery in Portland.  I have never been able to find a marriage record for her second husband or a divorce from her first.  I kind of think he must have divorced her or they would have both been bigamists.

She was living in Aberdeen Washington with her son by the first marriage and my mother and her “second” husband.

Her name was Versey Venus Howell and her first husband’s name was Noah Hardwick.  The brother she was living with in Portland’s name was Jesse Hardwick.  My grandfather’s name (at least I think he was) was Thomas Seldon Flynn.

Any help with this is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Dale 

P.S. she went by an alias of Jean.

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