Shelby  County  Indiana
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Shirley

The  Shelbyville  Daily  Democrat
Monday, April 7, 1924
Page Two
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WILL  LECTURE  TONIGHT.
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          Rev. and Mrs. H. A. Shirley, returned missionaries from Africa, who have spent twelve and sixteen years respectively on that continent, will deliver lectures concerning missionary activities at the Nazarene Church this evening.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming

The  Shelby  Democrat
Friday March 23, 1906
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DIVORCE  CASE
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Of James Shirley VS Hattie Shirley
Tried This Afternoon
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          Before Judge Sparks this afternoon, the divorce case of  James Shirley  VS  Hattie Shirley  was tried.  The court granted the separation. About a half a dozen witnesses were placed on the stand, all of these being produced by the plaintiff. The defendant failed to appear.
          The charges were that the lady formerly  Hattie Rapp, had cruelly treated her husband and his four children by a former wife.  She had finally driven the children from the home.  These were placed on the stand and testified that they were obliged to stay in the garret, were not given anything to eat when they failed to get to meals exactly on time, that their step-mother would not speak to them and that during a series of revival services, she had frequently ridden to church alone in the buggy and had forced them to walk.  One of the boys testified that the children were not allowed to enter the parlor except on rare occasions, and that on those occasions they were obliged to sit “like we had a ramrod through us, and we couldn’t move the chairs because they were set according to certain stripes in the carpet.”
Contributed by Barb Huff

The  Shelbyville  Daily  Democrat
Tuesday February 27, 1906
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          James H. Shirley has filed a complaint asking for a divorce from his wife, Hattie E. Shirley.  The chief ground is that the woman has been mistreating the plaintiff’s children by a former marriage.  The parties reside in the southwestern part of Noble township.
Contributed by Barb Huff

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