Evelina Gillespie seeks a divorce from Charles K. Gillespie. She charges that "her said husband has wilfully and maliciously deserted and absented himself from her," having gone to California, "from whence he was never returned, having been absent nearly seven years." Daughter of prominent parents, Evelina reports that "at the time of her marriage, your Oratrix was the owner of a large real and personal estate, or entitled to the same under the last will and testament of her deceased father." She adds that said estate has increased "by the deaths of her mother and sister." Evelina submits that there are several suits pending against her husband and "that no final partition of the entire real and personal estate of her deceased father and mother has been made." Among her many prayers, Evelina requests that she be "restored to all the rights and privileges of a feme sole; that all of the property, real and personal, remaining on hand which was devised or otherwise accrued to her before or during her marriage be settled upon her; ... that alimony be allowed; ... and that the custody of her children be secured to her."
Result: Partially granted pro confesso; granted.
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Repository: Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee
