Jefferson County AlArchives Divorce.....Rouveyral, Maria - Tuech, Henry 1900 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: L. Hanke lhbham@yahoo.com January 27, 2008, 4:44 pm Loose Records Jefferson Co AL Circuit Court Loose Records Jefferson Co MS Henry Tuech, age 37, born France filed for divorce from Maria Rouveyral, age 30, born France, daughter of Eugene & Eugenia Rouveyral. They were married 14 Oct 1889. Their daughter Henrietta was born Sept 1893. The family lived in Wylam Alabama where Henry was a miner. Around 1898, Maria began to see another man, Ferdinand Chanal. Henry testified that one day about two weeks later when he came home the house was closed up and dark, and Maria was gone, along with their 5 ˝ year-old daughter Henrietta. Henry searched for them, and had officers searching for them, but could find no trace of either Ferdinand Chanal or of Maria. Witnesses who were deposed: Eugene Rouveyral, father of Maria, testified that Henry was a good husband, that Maria had no reason to leave, and that he did not know of her whereabouts. Clovis Tuech, brother of Henry, testified that Maria had been seeing Ferdinand, that Henry was a good husband and provider, and that Maria had abandoned him voluntarily. Firman Thomas testified that he knew both parties to the suit, that he had known Ferdinand Chanal 'ever since he could remember.' He described Ferdinand as a 'lazy, trifling fellow who would not work more than a day or two in the week.' He further testified that Ferdinand had a wife and two children who he brought to Alabama with him from Missouri. He mistreated the wife, and she took the children and went back to her father's house in Missouri. Firman said he knew that Ferdinand and Maria were seeing each other, and that - as he put it - Chanal left Wylam 'suddenly and mysteriously,' and ten days later, 'Maria took her little girl and left mysteriously and suddenly, while her husband was at work.' Sophie Bessiere of Pratt City said she saw Maria and her daughter in Birmingham about 11 in the morning on the day she deserted her husband. With her was Dennis Chanal, brother of Ferdinand. Also with her was August Martin. August Martin said he went with Maria at her request to the train depot and bought tickets to Kansas City Missouri. Maria paid for the tickets. She told him she was going to join Ferdinand Chanal because she loved him, that she didn't love her husband, and this was a step she had been wanting to take for a long time. She also told August that she had taken all the money Henry had, that she hadn’t left earlier because she was waiting until pay day. She asked him if Henry could sell the land without her being there, that it was all right with her if he did, since she had taken all his money. August further said when Ferdinand got to Missouri he had written Maria a letter telling her to come there. Maria had shown August the letter and he had read it. She sent an answer saying she was coming. She got on the train at 12:05 and he hadn’t seen her since. ----------------------------------- Looking through the censuses for 1900 and 1910 turned up the following info: 1900 – Missouri – Lexington, Lafayette Co - No a trace of Ferdinand and Maria in any state, that I could find. - One Denis Chanal, age 36, single, born France, was living in the household of Ernest Barrott, 38 b.FR, and family: Leona 32 b.FR, Fernon, son10 b.FR and Dennez, dau 5 b.FR. 1900 Alabama – Jefferson Co - Henry was living with brother Clovis Tuech’s family: wife Clementine 30 bFR, son Clovis 8 bFR, son Peter 5 bFR, dau Mary 3 bAL, son George 1 bAL, and son H. 1 month bAL. - Eugene Rouveyral 54 and wife Eugenia 50 were there, with two of their 6 children still at home: Eugene 18 b FR, and Henry 10, b FR. HOWEVER, 1910 – Alabama – Jefferson Co - Henry and Maria are back together again: Henry Tuech 48 b France fa: FR mo: FR married 20 years Mary, wife 40 b France fa: FR mo: FR 2 children, 2 still living Henrietta 16 b AL Eugene 3 b AL Henry's occupation was now ‘molder’ in a steel mill. So obviously they got together again after 1900 and before 1906. In 1910 or 1920, there was still no trace of Ferdinand Chanal anywhere. His brother Denis, was still single and living in Lexington Missouri, but he and a widow Nancy Chanal were all that I could find. (they were on the same page, by the way – Nancy and kids Ida 6 and Earnest 4 both b. MO were in her brother’s house, Anton Meunier 19 b Can. (fa:FR mo:FR). Additional Comments: Notes: information obtained while cleaning and indexing loose records for Jefferson County Alabama. I am not related to any of the parties. 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