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From: Gregory Myers< >
Subject: Marriage Delima .... Raymond Myers
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 23:03:46 -0600 (CST)


Hope someone can help .... I'm trying to solve a situation with my
great-grandparents data.

I have a RAYMOND MYERS (B. 26 Feb 1896 in St. Louis; D. 08 Jun 1958).
Who 1st married on 24 Jul 1915 to ISABELLE SCHMID, then divorced on 24
Nov 1915 (I have both records), they possibly had a child by the name
Vernet, by the records, but old family denies that fact.

Raymond then married my great-grandmother CATHERINE NEVA HAYES (B. 18
Nov 1899 in Vanderburg Co., IN; D. 15 Jan 1976 in St. Louis). Their 1st
child RAYMOND L. MYERS was born on 27 Dec 1916.

Here's where I need some help:

I can't find another marriage on my great-grandfather to my
great-grandmother with a county. I did find in St. Vincent De Paul's
records that they were married on 28 Apr 1922 in St. Louis, but this
date is after they already had 4 children, and doesn't make sense, now
the family bible passed down from them shows their marriage as being in
March of 1915 (but that's impossible due to Raymond Myers's 1st marriage
to Isabelle being in July 1915.

It looks like they didn't want family to know of his 1st marriage and to
ensure all children felt legitament. I think they possibly married
right after Raymond's divorce (Nov 1915 or later into 1916) at a Justice
of the Peace somewhere close to St. Louis. (My great-grandmother
Catherine Hayes lived in Granite City for a period up to 1916 or her
marriage.) Can anyone PLEASE check any indexes for marriage of Raymond
Myers to Catherine Hayes (1915-22) in surrounding counties of St. Louis,
ie. Madison, IL; St. Clair, IL; St. Louis County; St. Charles County or
Jefferson County, MO.?????They had to be on file somewhere. I think the
1922 marriage at St. Vincent DePaul was a renewal of vowels of feeling
guilty of using a J.O.P., if they did earlier.

Does anyone have any input on this????

THANK YOU in advance,

Greg Myers

P.S. I also have a website at:
http://members.tripod.com/~gregorymyers/index.html with St. Louis and
Madison County, IL Surnames and more on this/my MYERS line.

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