Ida Issadore Boughner Files For Divorce

I continue with the life of my Great-Great Grandmother Ida Issadore Boughner. At this point in her life she has moved out West to Sapulpa, Creek County, Oklahoma to start a new life for herself. She has met and married John Talbert Renow Ladd on the 1st of May 1915 in Creek County, Oklahoma. In the 1920 Sapulpa Township, Creek County, Oklahoma U.S. Federal Population Schedule Census John and Ida Ladd are living at 18 East Dewey Street. They are both listed with the occupation of manager of a second hand retail furniture store. I have wondered if they actually owned this second hand furniture store or if they managed it for someone else. Something I need to dig into more.

Also in 1920, Ida files for a divorce from John T.R. Ladd on May 3, 1920, only 5 years after they were married. According to the Divorce Petition #8339 filed in Creek County Distirct Court, Ida's reason for divorce is due to "extreme cruelty toward the said Plaintiff. That said Defendant has been quarrelsom, morose and abusive towards the Plaintiff and continually finding fault with the Plaintiff as though she were a hired servant, and the conduct of the said Defendant has become unbearable to the Plaintiff and the Plaintiff cannot continue to live with the said Defendant as her husband". The divorce was finalized on June 4, 1920.

I find it terrible that Ida moved all the way out to Oklahoma to start a new life after the early death of her first husband and marries someone that she finds that she can't even live with. I never met or knew Ida personally as she died long before I was born, so I do not know what kind of character she had or if she was an honest person. I would hope that she was a fine and upstanding person but one never knows their own relatives, especially those that they never met. So, with that said, I also wonder if this was just Ida's story and if she could have exaggerated at all. Possibly John was not the best husband but was he so bad that they needed to divorce? Well, as you will see in my next post Ida must have reconsidered because she remarried John almost exactly to the day a year later of when the divorce was finalized.

The photo I am including with this post is of John Talbert Renow Ladd. It is a little grainy but it is only 1 of 3 photo's I have of him. I do not know when this photo was taken or where it was taken.