A little more info from Megan -- Maybe a Wisconsin marriage? Mary >All my mother knew was whenever she asked her grandmother about her >husband she got really sad. Then we found a picture in an album that >she made for my mom in a wallet. It was a picture of her, a picture >of a man and another one with the same man in front of his car. My >great-grandmother was pregnant and all by herself which was a really >big scandal back then and was basically shunned by the town in >Wisconsin where she lived at the time. Everyone talked about a rumor >that she had gotten pregnant by a rich married man and she never >talked about him. That's basically all that I know. I really want to >let my mother know who her great-grandfather is since the same thing >basically happened to her mother and my mother diesn't know her >father. So, one mystery at a time I'm focusing on my >great-grandmother since my grandmother refuses to tell my mother who >her father is. Well... that's my soap opera like story. ANY help >with this mystery would be greatly appreciated. Thank you Megan > > > > >---------- > > Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:46:18 -0600 > > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > > From: [email protected] > > Subject: Fwd: RAMSEY COUNTY QUERY > > > > You all were so efficient with the last one of these, here's one > > that's a little more challenging! > > > > It would have been hard to keep the marriage 'secret,' at least in > > Ramsey County, as marriage records have always been public records, > > if someone was looking. Now getting married in an adjoining county > > would have obscured the picture a little. > > > > Also interesting to speculate on WHY she would want to keep the > > marriage secret -- perhaps, Megan, you could fill us in a little on this. > > > > Any other ideas for Megan? > > > > Mary > > Listmom > > > > >From: <[email protected]> > > >Subject: RAMSEY COUNTY QUERY > > >Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:20:42 +0000 > > > > > >October 19 2007 > > >Megan Barker > > ><mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] > > > > > >Looking for any information on Ernestine Jensen (mother's maiden > > >name Diehl) born May 5th 1914 in Ramsey County. This is my > > >great-grandmother who my Mother believes got married in secret to a > > >man with the last name of Phillips (letter was found from a Benjie) > > >Thank you any information to clueing pieces to my family history's > > >puzzle would be greatly appreciated. > > > > > >Megan Barker > > > >