Here is the 1940 US Census for Gladys May (Travland) Hunt living with her husband, Eugene Walton Hunt and their sons Larry Wade and Eugene Walton Hunt. Their entries can be found on lines 1 - 4. The Hunt family was living in Alice City, Jim Wells County, Texas. The 1940 US Census includes residency information for 1935; Gladys and Eugene were living in Tuleta, Bee County, Texas. Gladys May (Travland) Hunt was the daughter of Stella (Berkeland) and Thomas Tobias Travland, the granddaughter of Iverdine (Finnestad) and Lewis Travland and great granddaughter of Taletta Larsdatter and Peder Pederson Travland.
Divorce records are difficult to obtain. Few states have digitized that information, even if you know what state AND county someone filed for divorce. Newspaper reports of a divorce are a source, but they aren't always published and even rarer they are digitized or microfilmed. Here is the divorce record for Orville Ilin Olson and Margaret (Chapman) Olson. This document is helpful as it does confirm the Olson's had 2 children as a result of their marriage. At this point the only information family have provided is that Margaret and Orville had two girls, one named Margaret and the name of her sister is unknown. As is common with genealogical research, this document does have an error. Orville's birthdate is correct, but his birthplace was Steward, Lee county, Illinois, not Minnesota. The date of the divorce is February 18, 1972 and was processed in Seattle, King county, Washington. It does indicate the date of their marriage as June 21, 1949 which mat