Unssubscribe > > From: ARLEE-D-request@rootsweb.com > Date: 2001/11/14 Wed AM 04:03:01 EST > To: ARLEE-D@rootsweb.com > Subject: ARLEE-D Digest V01 #49 > > ARLEE-D Digest Volume 01 : Issue 49 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [ARLEE] Divorcees [Steven Dhuey <walloon@mailbag.com>] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from ARLEE-D, send a message to > > ARLEE-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > To contact the list administrator, send mail to > ARLEE-admin@rootsweb.com. > > ______________________________ > I am trying to determine if a Marianna resident was a widow or a > divorcee, based on indirect evidence (having just about exhausted my > search for direct evidence!). > > She was referred to in the Marianna newspaper in the 1910s and 1920s > as "Mrs. Annie Burgess", while other married or widowed women, such > as her own mother, were almost always referred to by their husbands' > name, e.g., Mrs. John Smith. > > In general, in that era, I know it was customary to refer to a widow > as Mrs. John Smith, and a divorcee as Mrs. Jane Smith. But was that > custom for referring to divorcees followed by the Marianna newspapers > of that era? > > Steve > >