Schley County GaArchives Divorce.....Halstead, Lucinda Grantham - Halstead, Simon Bentley unknown
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Original document, Schley County courthouse
Lucinda Halstead vs. S.B. Halstead

Divorce & Alimony
Schley Superior Court

To the Hon. Superior Court, said county

The petition of Lucinda Grantham will show unto your Honor that her(torn) to 
suit(?) on the 30th day of March 1882 a consent decree for alimony was taken 
before T.J. Simmons then presiding, in favor of petitioner against said S.B. 
Halsted for the sum of forty-five dollars until suit for divorce which was 
then & now pleading (?) in said court for (unreadable) to be paid in quarterly 
installments to your petitioner, first payment to be made on or before the 1st 
day of May 1882.

And petitioner would show that the said S.B. Halstead has not complied with 
said agreement which was made the judgment of the court by consent in this, to 
wit:  said Halstead made two payments viz 1st of May 1882 & the first of July 
1882 and the said S.B. Halsted has not paid petitioner any amount for the 
support and maintenance of petitioner child since said time but refuses to 
comply with said consent decree where fore your petitioner prays that your 
Honor grant unto petitioner a grele ni si (?) requiring said S.B. Halstead to 
show cause instanta or as soon as counsel can be heard why he should not pay 
over to petitioner the amount of alimony now due or be attached for contempt.
This Nov 5th 1883.

Hinton & McCrory 
Petitioner atty


Read & considered.  It is ordered & adjudged by the court that the defendant 
S.B. Halstead show cause before me instanta or as soon as counsel can be heard 
why he should not pay over to the petitioner Lucinda Grantham the amount now 
due for alimony or be attached for contempt.

(signature unreadable)

 


Additional Comments:
This is not conclusive evidence that the two above parties were divorced, 
although it seems likely.  They were married in Schley county 1 Nov. 1877.  
Lucinda was a daughter of Benjamin J. & Nancy A. Grantham, born about 1855.  
She died January 8, 1900 according to her marker at Fellowship cemetery.  Also 
buried there is Emma Elizabeth Edge Heath, next wife of Simon Bentley 
Halstead.  She died 22 Oct. 1917.  Simon Bentley Halstead married a third time 
to Gertrude Usry, on Jan. 18, 1920.

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