20184105https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20184105AlabamaPickensCounty25101841Chancery1844Chancerydismissed002Pickens County Courthouse, Carrollton, AlabamaAfter 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.Domestic violenceInsubordinationAbandonment