Schley County GaArchives Divorce.....Greene, Della Walker - Greene, John H. April 11, 1889
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Orig. document, Schley Co. courthouse
JOHN H. GREENE
            VS
DELLA GREENE

Filed in office Sept. 1st 1889
J.N. Cheney, Clerk

Libel for divorce
Schley Superior Court, Sept 1888

It appearing to the court by the return of (torn) the Deft in the above stated 
case, that the (torn) Deft does not reside in said county and (torn) further 
appearing that she does not reside in this state.  It is therefore ordered by 
the court that service be perfected on the Deft by the publication of this 
order (torn) ce a month four months before the next term of this court in the 
Schley County Enterprise, a newspaper published in Schley County, Georgia.


Georgia,
Schley County

I, J.N. Cheney clerk of the Superior Court in and for said county, certify 
that the above and foregoing petition is a true copy of the original which was 
filed in my office returnable (?) to the September term of the Superior Court 
1888, that the original is lost or misplaced and that the service by 
publication was had in the case in pursuance of an order of the Honorable Sup 
Court of said county (torn) onted at the Sept term 1888 the same having been 
published in the Sumter Republican, the Schley County Enterprise having ceased 
to be published in Schley Co. at and before the publication could be had in 
said paper and (torn) Republican assumed the contract of advertising for the 
County of Schley and that the same was therefore had in the Republican.

J.N. Cheney, Clerk


Georgia,
Schley County

To the Superior Court of Schley County

The petition of John H. Greene of said county shows that on the 2nd day Feb 188
(torn, but Schley marriage records indicate the year was 1880) he was married 
to Della Walker who was lately of said county but who now resides out of said 
state and that your petitioner and said Della (torn) lived together as man and 
wife until (torn) April 1881 and that on the (torn) have three years before 
(torn) the said Della Greene for (torn) just cause willfully deser(torn) and 
has from the (torn) continuously (torn) and resided apart from (torn, several 
lines missing) from the said Della Greene formerly Walker and that (torn) 
process may issue requiring the said Della Greene formerly Walker to be and 
appear at the next Superior Court to be held in and for said County to answer 
petitioner’s Libel for Divorce.

J.R. Williams
Petitioner’s Atty


We the jury find that sufficient proofs have been submitted to (torn) 
consideration to authorize (torn) total divorce, that is to say (torn) divorce 
a vinculo matrimonii (torn) upon legal principals between the parties in this 
case, that is to say a total divorce as to the Pltff John Greene and that all 
rights & disabilities of the contract of marriage be dissolved as to Pltff 
John Greene.

April 11, 1889

James M. Bray, foreman


(Notes:  James M. Bray, the foreman of this jury, was a Missionary Baptist 
minister and would have been about 49 years old at the time of this verdict.  
He died in March of 1918 and is buried at County Line Baptist church cemetery 
which sites almost on the Macon County line in northern Schley county.

Della Greene is found on the 1880 Schley Co. census in the home of her 
parents, James & Virginia Walker, in the 882nd G.M. Dist.  She is 25 years 
old.  I believe her parents to be James A. Walker and Emeline Virginia Bivins 
who married in Marion Co., 3 Feb 1853.)


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