When Mary C. Adams married Absolom Adams in Tennessee about 1835, she was "possessed in her own right of a property in personalty slaves & land, of the value of $12000." She charges her husband with physical and mental abuse during their marriage and with marrying her "for improper & unworthy objects and with the deliberate purpose of fraudulently getting the possession & ownership of all her property." She asks for a divorce, a court-ordered allowance from her husband while the case is pending, and the restoration of her wealth.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Bourbon County Courthouse, Paris, Kentucky
