Petition #20184105

• Pickens County, Alabama. October 25, 1841. - circa 1844.
• Court: Chancery
• Salutation: To the honorable Chancellor of the Northern division of the State of Alabama

Abstract

After marrying Sarah Duncan in 1836, Jacob Smith instructed his children and servants to respect his new wife "as children & Servants ought to do, towards a mother & mistress." But, Smith charges, Sarah "never appeared happy, or content in their company nor spoke to, or communed pleasantly with them; her conversation with them was at all times in strains of anger & unpleasantness." Less than seven months after the marriage, Susan left. Now, Smith asks for divorce.

Result: Dismissed.

• Number of petition pages: 3
• Related documents: Answer, 20 December 1841; Decree, ca. 1844; Interrogatories, 20 May 1844; Depositions, James W. Smith, John Smith, Fielding S. Smith, 1 July 1843
• Pages of related documents: 16

2 people are documented within petition 20184105

• 1 Defendant
• 1 Petitioner

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Citation information

Repository: Pickens County Courthouse, Carrollton, Alabama

• Records of the Circuit Court, Estates

Subjects

• Domestic violence
• Insubordination
• Abandonment