“Until Death Do Us Part… Or Five Weeks Later”: A Tale of Marital Woe in 1875 Dallas – Belle Carpenter vs John W Carpenter
Family history serendipity is real. Thanks to a kind fellow researcher, I recently discovered my ancestor’s divorce case that answers the question of what happened to Isabella Weatherford’s first husband, John W. Carpenter. I had her marriage on 3 January 1875, the birth of her first daughter, Clem, on 3 October 1875, and a second marriage to Robert Royston on 16 January 1877. With no death record, I assumed that perhaps John had died or...
