EleanorCol@aol.com (EleanorCol@aol.com) wrote: >I have Mary Ellen Ozment (could she have had two middle names?) married to >Jeremiah R. Knowles on 29 January 1880. Then she married John Tribble 21 >September 1881. I have her dying in 1930. I don't have any children listed >under either husband. Interesting! If Mary & Jeremiah were divorced August 18, 1881, and she married John Tribble a little over a month later, then perhaps we can guess what the divorce was all about. That seems pretty unusual, doesn't it? Maybe I am just being a prude!! (Karen Hayes, could this be the "Mary Knowles" who married a Tribble that you found in the Drew Co. marriage records once upon a time? When you sent that to me, I thought Mary Knowles was the daughter of William Knowles' brother (??), the younger Richard Knowles. Confusing!) As for Mary's true middle name, I'm stumped. The divorce record does say "Mary A." I can't lay my hands on their marriage record at the moment. However, in my database I have a note that says in the 1880 Drew County census, Mary is listed as "Mollie E. Knowles", so you are onto something with the "Mary Ellen". I'll post questions about William Ozment later (perhaps tomorrow). First I need to find some of Rebecca's earlier Ozment posts to see if I can figure out how this Mary Ozment and the William Ozment who married Mary Ann Loveless were related. Thanks, Eleanor! --Melissa