Divorce Suit Blanks.
Divorces have become so common that attorneys are now using printed blank forms of complaints which are so constructed as to fit the average suit for separation. The first of this form of complaints was filed yesterday by W. B. Schwartz. The form is as complete as that used in the foreclosure of improvement liens and other matters of common litigation, having blanks in the body of the charges for dates, names and a short space left for the pronoun “he” or “she,” according to the sex of the plaintiff or defendant.
The suit that initiates this form of divorce complaint into the courts of Marion county is that of Mattie M. Travis against Charles F. Travis, basing the grounds for separation on alleged cruel treatment.
NEW SUITS FILED.
Emily W. Mills vs. Winifred B. Holton et al.: on note. Superior Court, Room 1.
Hiram H. Gibbs vs. Richard Ryse: damages. Superior Court, Room 2.
Mary Bogle vs. George Bogle: divorce. Superior Court, Room 1.
Sadie E. Leacock vs. Anna B. Knee et al.: partition. Circuit Court.
Mattie M. Travis vs. Charles F. Travis: divorce. Superior Court, Room 3.
“Divorce Suit Blanks,” and “New Suits Filed,” The Indianapolis Journal (Indianapolis, Indiana), 16 March 1901, p. 8, col. 4; digital image, Chronicling America (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ : accessed 18 arch 2014).
Genealogy Lady 
So how common was divorce amongst the Yegerlehners? I know that, for my mother, it was hard to take that I was “the first divorce” in the family. But surely that couldn’t have been the case.
I think divorce was a lot more common in general than people believe. As for the Yegerlehner’s, there were quite a few divorces in some of the other branches of the Yegerlehner tree, going back to the 1930s and 1940s.
Especially considering that her own brother Glenn was divorced twice before you were….