Shelby Circuit Court
Box 467
No. 5988

Marion P. Williams

                             VS    Complaint  for  Divorce

Sallie K. Williams


Filed December 24, 1896 
            John W. Powers Clerk



State of Indiana Shelby County                 In the Circuit Court March Term 1897
Marion P. Williams    VS    Sallie K. Williams         Complaint for Divorce

            The Plaintiff complains of the defendant and says that he is now and for more than five years last past has been a bona fide resident of Hendricks township, in Shelby County state of Indiana and that he is by occupation a farmer; that he and the defendant were married in Ashville, North Carolina, on May 4, 1885, and lived together as husband and wife until March 1, 1896, when the defendant abandoned the plaintiff and have remained separate and apart from him ever since; that during all the time of their said marriage the plaintiff performed all duties towards her as a good and faithful husband and without fault on his part, and that said defendant without cause left his bed and refused to cook for him or to live with him, that she, at divers times, wrongfully and without cause accused him of infidelity and without cause became inordinately jealous, all of which plaintiff says she was cruel and inhuman treatment.
            Wherefore he demands judgment for divorce from said defendant and for all other relief.
Wilson & Thompson     Attys for Plaintiff

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Marion P. Williams VS Sallie K. Williams     Affidavit
Filed December 24, 1896     J. W. Powers Clerk
W. & T. Attys             5988
State of Indiana In the Circuit Court
Shelby County       SS                           March Term 1897

Affidavit         Marion P. Williams VS Sallie K. Williams
            The plaintiff in the above and titled cause, being duly sworn says under oath, that he is now and for more than five years last past has been a bona fide resident of Hendricks township, in Shelby County, Indiana and that he is by occupation a farmer, that the said defendant is a non resident of this state, and as he is informed and believes is a resident of the state of Indiana North Carolina, the exact locality in said state is to the plaintiff unknown.
M. P. Williams        

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 24th day of December 1896.
                        Lee F. Wilson     Notary Public


Transcribed by Barb Huff

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