Short-Term Spouses

For years, I had difficulties finding the sister of one of my great-great-grandmothers. This sister was born in Indiana in the 1840s. She was living in Missouri in the early 20th century when she was mentioned with her married name in several obituaries of siblings and newspaper references to family visits. One reason I had difficulty locating her was because she had two short-term marriages in the 1865-1880 era. Whether these husbands died young or whether there was a divorce is not yet known, but for some reason these two husbands were not mentioned in family history records. It did not help my research that newspaper references to this relative were only from about 1895 and after–a time frame outside her first two marriages.