This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BOATRIGHT/JONES Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZYE.2ACEB/284.1 Message Board Post: Dave, I still haven't figured out which Boatright man your grandma married but I think the Maud Boatright in this story is your grandmother and there might be more to the story of why Maud and the Boatright man divorced. Linda PS I have written to Jay before, asking for a copy of the newspaper article but never heard back. We had talked before as his SWR Jones appears in a book I have about some of the Oregon pioneers. In Denver, Apapahoe County, on Dec 25, 1890 Silas W.R. JONES married Maud BOATRIGHT. 15 days later this 77 year old man divorced 20 year old Maud having found that his old man's darling was already married. SWR JONES also simultaneously divirced 21 year old Cynthia HARBINE, another misadventure of his from Portland Oregon. A woman by the name of Anna TORSO hired a private investigator, Charles MEEKER, to track Silas JONES to Kokomo Indiana where he had married Hanna SLYTER and settled into happily married life (finally). Charles MEEKER tyried to abduct Silas JONES from his Indiana home in 1892, likely to shake him down on a bigamy charge in Denver. Silas was rescued at the train station by the Kokomo sheriff and MEEKER fled. If any present day descendant of any of these folks are interested in reading fascinating newspaper accounts of the above, please e-mail me...Jay Jones (GGGrandson of Silas WR JONES)s WR JONES)