Whitley-Knox County KyArchives Divorce.....Hoskins, Betsy - Davis, Jobe Broughton 1861
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Kenturcky Archives April 14,1857
April 14th,1857
Petition for divorce Job Broughton Davis Pttlf and Betsy Davis alias Betsy 
Hoskins or Hawkins Deft. Knox circuit Circuit Court Petition in Equity
Jobe B Davis states that on the_____day of____18__ he enter marriage with the 
Deft Besty Davis known as Betsy Hoskins expecting & hoping that by said 
marriage that he would add to his own happiness &that of Deft that lived with 
said Deft about__months that said Deft during the time he lived with her was 
abusive and ill disposed toward him without cause & that her ill temper & ill 
treatment to Pltff was such as to make pltff miserable and that he pltff found 
that he could not live with the Deft and be treated by her as a wife should 
ought to treat her husband and that on the __day__of 18__ Pltff and Deft 
seperated. Deft then said she never would live with Pltff again that they have 
lived seperate and apart ever since notes more than five years that they have 
had no intercourse, cohabitation as man and wife since. He further states and 
charges that during the time he lived with the DEFT she treated him unkind & 
inhuman so that he could not live with her. He further charges that the DEFT 
Betsy was at the time he married her married to a certain John Arington that 
she was married to him in the county of BUNKHAM in the State of North Carolina 
as he is informed and believes that he will so soon as he can obtain a record 
of said marriage file a copy of same as a part of this petiion. He states, 
that he had been informed & believes it true that DEFT has never been divorced 
from her said husband the said John Arington & of it he did not know at the 
time he married her and he married the DEFT. in Knox County Kentucky and that 
defendent now lives in Knox County and he the PTLFF lives in Whitley County 
and that his cause of ? occured within five years in Knox county Kentucky. The 
Pltff prayed that he be divorced from the DEFT and rstored to all the rights 
and privelleges of an unmarried man for all proper relief. Jobe B Davis he 
believes the statements in the petition are true April 14,1857     

Additional Comments:
This petition and dispostions of his witnessnes and other suits of Job B Davis 
were Xeroxed from the Kentucky Archives. Other than petition date shown. The 
blanks were as it is written in orignal document and no other dates are 
shown.  

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