Petition #21286602

Abstract

Returning home following Lee's surrender after fighting for four years in the Confederate Army, John H. Green discovered that his wife had had an affair with Jesse Hopson, a black man. In the summer of 1865, she gave birth to "a negro girl child." Green seeks a divorce.

Result: Granted.

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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina

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