Some of you Knowles and Ozment researchers might know something about this. All this time, I was under the impression that Jeremiah "Jerry" Knowles' first wife, Mary A. Ozment, died a couple of years after they married. Imagine my surprise to find their divorce record in the Drew County circuit clerk's office! Here is the entry in the court record book. Any additional info. appreciated! Did Mary Ozment Knowles marry again? ---------------------------- August 18th, 1881 J.R. Knowles, Plaintiff vs. Mary A. Knowles, Defendant Comes the plaintiff by his attorney and this cause coming on to be heard upon the plaintiffs [sic] complaint and testimony of witnesses, And it appearing that the defendant has been duly summoned herein but failing to answer or otherwise plead herein, the complaint is taken for confessed, And the allegations of the complaint being proven to the satisfaction of the court, and the prayer thereof being for divorce, the same is by the court granted. It is therefore considered, adjudged and decreed by the court, that the bonds of matrimony heretofore existing between the plaintiff and defendant be and the same are hereby dissolved, set aside and held for nought; that the plaintiff be restored to all the rights and privileges of an unmarried person and that he recover all of his costs in this cause, expended. From: Drew County Chancery Court Record Book "C", p. 140, Drew County courthouse Does anyone know what the complaint was against Mary A. Knowles? --Melissa