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Author: Genie101
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I don't have access to the divorce records, that would sure help.
1. I will get the obituary at the Fort Wayne library for Mildred Mills that died in May
1978, and post it if turns out to be "Mystery Mildred." I was guessing that her
daughter Josephine on the 1930 census was the same as "Jo Ann" in the cemetery
index.
2. Bessie Young is shown as divorced head of household with 4 children in Bluffton 1930
census.
3. I didn't find Bessie and Mildred's marriages in the book Marriage Records Wells
Co, IN 1899-1974, maybe they married in Allen Co. or ??
4. Harry Hedges is in the 1920 census Jefferson twp, Wells Co. indexed
ancestry.com as
"Harry Hedger." Also in household is wife Mildred and daughter Ida Alice, age
1.
I don't have anything about an Edward A. Hedge as a son of Harry Hedges, but there is
an Edward A. Hedges b. abt 1916 in the 1920 census household of Earl Hedges in Huntington
Co.
5. George B. Morris is in Bluffton on the 1920 census indexed
ancestry.com as "Geo B
Morris" with wife Rose, and two children, Fred P. and Martha Rose. George B. Morris
was a physician and his father's biography is posted online
http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.indiana.counties...
6. When George B. Morris married Edna Mae Compton April 2, 1940, he stated it was his 3rd
marriage. I assume that he and Mildred Mills divorced between the 1930 census and his 1940
marriage.
I'm glad to help, it has been an interesting puzzle. I just noticed that there is an
obituary for Bessie Merkey that d. in 1985, I will get that from the Ft. Wayne paper.
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