Petition #20186702

• Henry County, Alabama. September 17, 1867. - May 7, 1868.
• Court: Chancery
• Salutation: To the Honorable Nathaniel W. Cocke Chancellor of the Southern Chancery Division of the state of Alabama, presiding at the town of Abbeville for the fifth District of said Division

Abstract

Simon Farmer, a man of color, seeks a divorce from his wife, Sally, who, he claims, abandoned his "bed & board, & has since that time committed adultery with one James Paramon, Colored, &, others." He asks the court to subpoena his wife, who, he believes, is living in Georgia.

Result: Granted.

• Number of petition pages: 1
• Related documents: Decree, 7 May 1868
• Pages of related documents: 1

3 people are documented within petition 20186702

• 1 Defendant
• 1 Petitioner
• 1 Other

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Citation information

Repository: Henry County Courthouse, Abbeville, Alabama

• Records of the Circuit Court, Final Record
• Page: 342-43

Subjects

• Adultery
• Divorce
• Abandonment