Hi, I wanted to defend your gggrandmother a little. My grandmother was divorced in a small Iowa town in 1934. As you said, extremely scandalous behavior at the time. Until she remarried, she always referred to herself as a "grass widow" rather than a divorcee and I'm sure there were many times that the "grass" part just slipped her mind. LOL People were extremely narrow-minded in those days and assumed that if a woman was divorced she must be either a woman "of easy virtue" or a bad wife incapable of keeping her husband happy. In my grandmother's case, her husband was a college graduate and felt that just because the nation was in a deep depression, that was no reason he should have to do any manual labor but it didn't seem to bother him that his wife was trying to raise 3 kids and work 12 hours a day cooking in the local cafe. She finally got fed up and decided to divorce him and I figure if she wanted to refer to herself as a widow instead of a divorcee, she earned that right. I just didn't want you to think your gggrandmother had intentionally lied to people, it might just be a case of semantics. Diane S.