B. M. Carr seeks a divorce from his wife Mary, custody of their three children, and a partition of their community property, which consists principally of a ten-year-old slave girl worth four hundred dollars. After four years of marriage, Carr recounts that his wife became "cross, morose and alienated towards Petitioner." She soon left his bed and then threatened "that he should not live two months if she could get any person to put him out of the way." She also "called Petitioner ugly names in the presence of their children," who range in age from ten to sixteen. Both Carrs own slaves in their own right as well. In her testimony, Mary Wilson states that she once found Mary Carr's niece in bed with a "Negro man."
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Repository: Grayson County Courthouse, Sherman, Texas
