Mary L. Lytle petitions for divorce charging her husband with adultery, abusive behavior, and that he is "much inclined toward drunkenness." Moreover, he threatened to kill her, keeping a knife under his pillow and promising to "cut her throat." "This treatment," she asserts, "was habitual & as well when Sober as when he was drunk." She also accuses him of having had illicit intercourse with a "negro" or "mulatto" woman owned by his father. She claims that she "has good reason to believe that the same intercourse is kept up to this day." She seeks a divorce.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
