Ida Issadore Boughner Goes West!

I continue to chronicle the life of my Great-Great-Grandmother Ida Issadore Boughner. After the death of her first husband, John T. Debolt, the family story is that she was invited by her daughter to come out to Sapulpa, Creek County, Oklahoma. So, Ida went out for a visit sometime between the years 1907-1915. While there she met and married John Talbert Renow Ladd, also known as John T.R. Ladd. They married on 1 May 1915 according to their marriage record. Also according to the marriage record, Ida gave her residence as Clarksburg, West Virginia. Evidently, she had not completely made the move out to Oklahoma by this time but she soon would. The relationship of Ida and John T.R. Ladd seems to have been a roller coaster ride. Within 6 years they would marry each other two different times and also divorce each other two different times.

I can only imagine how lost Ida must have felt after losing her first husband of 27 years and the father of her children. I have often wondered if John T.R. Ladd was the first man to show Ida attention and she gravitated toward it. Needless to say their relationship was very rocky and according to the first set of divorce papers, Ida accused John T.R. Ladd of being abusive. Not sure why she married him again if the charge of abuse was true but she remarry him within a year of divorcing him. I have yet to obtain a copy of the second divorce but it occured sometime between 1921-1930.

I am including a copy of Ida and John T.R. Ladd's first marriage record.

My next post will continue the saga of the Ida and John T.R. Ladd's lives together.