Now I'm very excited. If you can truly furnish the divorce papers of Mary
Snodgrass and Samuel
Clark, it's I who will pay the expense of your copying these and sending them to me. It will clear up a mystery that we have pondered for several years. I would be very interested in seeing if you have anything on when they were married and if you can truly prove she was the widow of Joseph. We do not yet know the name of Isaac's wife although James
Goggins (now deceased) found a grave for a Stella, not otherwise attested in any
Snodgrass records I have for
Arkansas, who looks like about the right age. (Isaac was Robert Bean's father.) Do you know why Emeline
McGehee was buried with Robert and Lydia
Ivey? Do you show, as I thought that Lydia is the widow of James
Ivey? I'm not really sure why she would have gone with Robert to
Oregon. Robert's new wife Susan was Lydia's daughter-in-law by Susan's previous marriage to Joseph
Ivey and Robert was also her son's brother-in-law due to William
Riley Ivey's marriage to Mary Francis
Snodgrass, Robert's sister. That all seems a little tenuous for someone to go live with someone in another state.... Maybe there was a closer relationship than this? I don't know Lydia's maiden name, perhaps it was
Snodgrass? My snail mail address is:
Will
Johnson157 Hahns Rd
Aptos CA 95003