> Subject: [ILMACOUP-L] Re: Early divorce records > Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 13:33:43 -0800 > From: "Dave and Janis" <foleys@tx3.com> > To: ILMACOUP-L@rootsweb.com > I too, would be interested in this information. My great-grandmother was living near Woodburn in Macoupin Co. when she was divorced ca 1883. As the subject was taboo at the time, don't know if she would have been divorced in St. Louis, if the laws would have permitted that, or not. She later remarried in Brooklyn, New York, still returning to live at Woodburn. About twenty years ago, I got a copy of this later marriage license, in person, and saw the original record which shows her as being divorced. When the clerk made the "official" sealed copy, it states "never married before." So much for official records!