Joseph W. and Nancy ??? Gifford

An interesting side line to this is that Joseph W. and Nancy Gifford divorced probably in the early 1870s. They are living apart on the 1870 census(Nancy is living with Jacob and Sarah C. Miller)and Nancy Gifford is listed as Divorced on the 1880. Joseph W. Gifford married Josephine Justice in 1877. Another researcher on the jackson-co yahoo genealogy group was looking for a Hannah Gifford b. ca 1865 daughter of Josephine Gifford it would seem this is Hannah Justice dau of Josephine and Unknown Justice.

Does anyone know if divorce records for the 1870s would be in the Jackson Co. courthouse.

Clay Gullatt
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