Robeson County NcArchives Court.....Ivy, Hugh R. 1867
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Source: Divorce Records
Written: 1867

State of North Carolina   }  Superior Court of Law
Robeson County            }  Spring Term 1867
   To the Honorable the judge of Said Court
   The petition of Hugh R. Ivy of the County of
Robeson respectfully Showeth to your Honor that some
time in the fall of the year A D 1862 a Marriage
was contracted and duly Solemized between your
petitioner and the defendant Mary Eliza Ivy of the
County of Robeson,
   Your petitioner further Showeth that he has
at all times Since the solemization of their marriage
as aforesaid faithfully kept his vow and that it
was his purpose and desire to treat his said wife as a
kind, tender, dutiful and faithful husband, hopeing and
expecting to find her a chast prudent dutiful affect-
tionate and loveing wife, and fondly anticipateing
many years of domestic happineSs and of mutual confi-
dence and love but alas Your petitioner was Soon
undeived and learned to his unspeakable mortification
and sorrow that he had entirely mistaken the disposition
and character of the woman he had married.
   Soon after the solemization of their marriage your
petitioner was required to discharge his duty in
the army as a soldier and was permitted but a Short
while to remain with his said wife, That upon his
return home after the surrender of the Southern Armies
he attempted to keep house with his said Wife and
live with her in peace quiet and in the enjoyment
of domestic tranquility and happineSs and soon
discovered that his wife had lost all affection and
regard for him, that she was of a morose turbulent
and disagreeable temper entirely disobedient to her
   Husband and incorrigible would contrary
to his known and expreSsed wishes and commands
Stroll over the neighborhood in company with persons
of notoriously lewed character and finally on the 10th
day of June AD 1865 without any provocation on
his part She left the bed and board of your petitioner
and has since lived as a common prostitute, 
Your petitioner further Shows unto Your Honor
that he has learned and been informed reliably that
before his return from the army after their marriage
his said wife lived in open and promiscuous prostitute
   That under pretence of visiting her husband She
would go to regaments where he was not and Stay Several
days and commit acts of adultery with different persons
that She was guilty of the Same conduct when at
home and that Since She entirely abandoned him in
June 1865 She has committed acts of adultery having
had actual sexual intercourse with Several different
men and generally has demeaned and conducted herself
as a common prostitute living in notorious open
and promiscuous prostitution associateing exclusively
with the levied and lascivious
   Your petitioner further Showeth that he has resided
in this State three years immediately before the exhibition
of this his petition.  Your petitioner therefore prays
Your Honor to make a decree dissolving the bonds of
matrimony which now exist between himself and
the said defendant, and he also prays for Such other
and further relief in the premises as the nature and
circumstances of the case may require.
   Mary it please your Honor to order a Subpoenia
together with a copy of this petition to be issed to the
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   Said Defendant Commanding her to appear at
the next Term of this court then and there to answer
the premises &c.  And your petitioner as in duty
bound Shall ever pray.
A fifty cents Stamp being                Giles Leitch
on the original and duly canceled        Atty for Petitioner
 
North Carolina }
Robeson County }
This day personally appeared before me
R. M. Norment an acting Justice of the peace
of the county aforesaid Hugh R. Ivey the
Petitioner named in the foregoing petition
who being duly sworn upon the holy Evangelist
of Almighty God maketh oath that the facts
Stated in the said petition are true to the best of
his knowledge and beliefe and that his said complaints
is not made out of levity or by Collusion with his
Said wife, and for The purpose of being freed and
Seperated from each other but in Sincerity and
truth for the Causes mentioned in said petition,
He further makes oath that the facts upon which
his said complaint is grounded have existed to his
knowledge at least Six months prior to the filing
of this petition.
   Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 11th day
of August A.D. 1866                    his
R. M. Norment, J.P. {Seal}      Hugh R. x  Ivey
                                       Mark
 
Source: Robeson Co NC Divorce Records CR.083.604.3


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