When he was sixteen, Benjamin F. Millican married Elizabeth Holder, who was "much older," a "full grown woman." On the road hauling goods as a wagon man, Millican returned to find that his wife was having an affair with a young man in the neighborhood. Later, he said, she lived with a free family of color and was guilty of adultery with the son in the family, Frank Lytle. Benjamin Millican seeks a divorce.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
