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 matches the marriage certificate.
When I initially posted the marriage of Margaret and Orville, I was unaware of Orville's 2nd marriage. Following the death of his first wife, Ida Julia (Govig) in 1923, Orville married Ruth Rosemary (Horner) Wilson on May 4, 1930 in Carroll county, Illinois. This was the 2nd marriage for both Orville and Ruth. That marriage ended in divorce 4 years later on December 3, 1934 in Oregon, Ogle county, Illinois.
Orville Ilin Olson was the son of Mary (Knutson) and Stephen Olson, the grandson of Elizabeth (Finnestad) and Ole Andreas Knutson and the great-grandson of Mari (Iversdatter Nord-Skaar) and Ole (Olson) Finnestad Sr.
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