Miss Helen Irene Adams (Birth-Marriage/s - Annulment)

ADAMS, CONWAY, CLATTERBUCK, HENRICKSEN

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 8/8/2021 at 18:52:26

Helen Irene ADAMS
Iowa, U.S., Birth Index
Source: ancestry.com

Helen Irene Adams
Born: 01 Dec 1914
Spring Valley Twp
Monona County, Iowa
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Divorce Record – In Monona County Iowa
ANNULMENT GRANTED:
Groom: Newell Conway, age 35, married once
Bride: Helen I. Adams, age 20, no prev marriages
Marriage Date: April 5, 1935, in Omaha, Nebraska
Wife was granted Annulment on September 10, 1935.
Cause for which granted: his wife still living

[Newspaper below article reveals several marriages by Conway]

The Sioux City Journal
Tuesday, April 23, 1935

Iowan Who Left His Bride for a Day Was Married Previously.
Omaha—(AP)—Newell Conway of Council Bluffs, Iowa, who disappeared a week after he married Helen Adams of Moorhead, Ia., under the name of Newell Adams, was married here four years ago to an Omaha bookkeeper, it was revealed Monday.

Mrs. Edna Conway, the bookkeeper, said Conway disappeared six weeks after the wedding. There was no divorce, she said. Mrs. Conway visited her husband at the Council Bluffs hospital where he is being treated. An insanity complaint had been filed against him by his mother.

Mrs. Conway said she planned to file suit for divorce. She said Conway had been married to a Des Moines woman before his marriage to her.
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Iowa, U.S. Marriage Record
Date of Marriage: March 2, 1940
Groom: Erwin M. Clatterbuck
Place of res: Council Bluffs, Ia.
Place of birth: Council Bluffs, Ia.
Occupation: Farmer
Age at next birthday: 31
Father’s name: Walker Clatterbuck
Mother’s maiden name: Susan Wilson
Number of Groom’s marriage: First

Bride: Helen I. Adams
Place of Res: Moorehead, Ia.
Age next birthday: 26
Place of birth: Moorehead, Ia.
Father’s name: John M. Adams
Mother’s maiden name: Bessie Henricksen
Number of Bride’s marriage: First
Witness to marriage: S. W. Clatterbuck, Thurma Clatterbuck
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