Shelby  County  Indiana
Courthouse  Records

Bertha E. Jackson  vs  Harry E. Jackson


COMPLAINT   DIVORCE
Shelby Circuit Court
Filed June 12, 1907
Box A No. 8689

Complaint for Divorce
          The Clerk will issue summons in this cause to the Sheriff of Vanderburg County returnable June 27” 1907
Rec’d $4.00 in security of costs
Hord & Adams Atty for Pltff

The State of Indiana           Shelby County Circuit Court          May Term AD 1907
          Bertha E. Jackson  complains of  Harry E. Jackson  and says that she is now and has been for more than 19 years a bona fide resident of the State of Indiana and for more than two years last past has been and now is a bona fide resident of Hendricks Township Shelby County Indiana and her occupation is that of domestic in her fathers family for her support
          That on the 7th day of May 1904 she was married to defendant and lived with him until the 12th day of February 1905 when the defendant abandoned her without cause and has continued said abandonment to this time which is more than two years.
          That the defendant has wholly failed to provide for the plaintiff for more than two years.  That it is impossible for said parties to live together as husband and wife  Wherefore she asks that her name be changed to  Bertha E. Fortune  her Maiden name and upon final trial of this Cause she be granted an absolute divorce and for all other proper relief.

Bertha E. Jackson

Subscribed and sworn to before me this May 12” 1907
K.M. Hord
Notary Public
My Com expires April 16” 1907

Transcribed by Barb Huff

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