Allen County OhArchives ..... Divorce Petitions and Decrees - 1904 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Judy Woerner judyw0113@yahoo.com February 9, 2006 ************************************************ From the Lima Times Democrat Divorce Petitions and Decrees 1904 February 2, 1904 Mary E. McNeal vs. John N. McNeal. Attorney O. W. Smith has prepared a petition asking for a divorce for Mary E. McNeal, who was married to John N. McNeal April 24, 1888. It contains a number of the allegations which the law supports as cause for separation, habitual drunkenness, extreme cruelty and gross neglect of duty all being charged. The wife complains that the defendant, frequently intoxicated, brutally assaulted her, and that he did not provide for herself or their one child. February 5, 1904 Catherine Disney vs. Samuel Disney. Several days ago the divorce suit was recorded but withheld from publication to give the plaintiff's attorneys an opportunity to locate the defendant for proper service. Not being able to do so, service has been legally had by publication. Charges of gross neglect of duty and willful absence are made. February 29, 1904 Lola E. Stratton vs. Lafayette Stratton. Divorce granted on the grounds of gross neglect of duty. Mrs. Stratton was given a decree, custody of the three children and allowed $1,000 alimony, but as the husband is a day laborer and is said to work only when he has to, it is not likely that she will receive much, if anything from him. D. C. Henderson presented the case. March 14, 1904 Sidney L. Curtis vs. Pearl L. Curtis. Married on the 3rd of February, 1901; petition charges wife with desertion, that she left him October 16, 1903, and since that time they have not lived together. He charges that she committed adultery with Alvin A. Furry and confessed her love for him in preference to her husband. Copeland & Rogers represent the plaintiff. March 22, 1904 George Morris vs. Emma Morris. Plaintiff asks for a divorce on the ground of willful absence for more than three years. They were married October 23, 1895, but no children were born. The case was brought by Welty and Downing. May 9, 1904 Dollie M. Cole vs. Chas. E. Cole. They were married March 12, 1900, at Celina. She says she and her only child were deserted last month, and the whereabouts of the husband and father are unknown. Gross neglect of duty, which consisted in failure to provide the necessaries of life, and association with dessolute women, is charged. Plaintiff says she invested $700 left by her father in lot 3251 McPherson & Phillips addition and she asks that her husband be deprived of any dower interest in the property. A divorce and custody of the child are prayed for. Lina Evick vs. David F. Evick. Mrs. Evick was married to defendant at West Cairo, April 2, 1902, and was deserted on the 2nd of last March, being left with a 10 month old son. She says her husband was cruel to her, coming home to abuse and threaten her while in an intoxicated condition. His wages, she says was spent for drink and she was compelled to live mostly by her own exertions and such help as she could secure from her family. May 26, 1904 Mable L. Mechling vs. Arden Mechling. She is left to support herself and two children, Robert, aged 6 and Jennetta, aged 4. In the petition for divorce filed by T. R. Hamilton, Mrs. Mechling charges her husband with abandoning her and says he has been willfully absent for more than three years. They were married April 9, 1881. John Grady vs. Elizabeth Grady. Judge Mathers, of Sidney, is hearing the divorce suit in the private room of Judge Cunningham. An answer and cross petition was filed by Mrs. Grady, but she is making no defense at the hearing, being satisfied with the intentions of her husband to secure a separation. From the allegations contained in the petition and the answer, the couple have lived anything but a happy life. May 28, 1904 Sidney L. Curtis vs. Pearl A. Curtis. Divorce granted on the ground of gross neglect of duty. Louise Slater vs. Wm. E. Slater. Divorce granted on the ground of gross neglect of duty and violation of the statutory law. June 1, 1904 O. A. Peterson vs. Anna Peterson. Divorce granted by Judge Mathers. June 13, 1904 John W. Odell vs. Lizzie Odell. The plaintiff, an oil well driller, who lives in Bluffton, is an applicant for a divorce, charging that he was deserted by his wife, Lizzie Odell, to whom he was married at Bowling Green, June 22, 1901. He says that while he was at work in the oil field his wife sold $125 worth of household goods for $15 and then left, since which time she has refused to live with him. June 21, 1904 Cora Linn vs. Miner Linn. Divorce granted yesterday. The plaintiff furnished evidence to prove that her husband deserted her some years ago, leaving his family without means of support. June 28, 1904 Mattie L. Douglas vs. Emanuel Douglas. Gross neglect of duty is charged, and the plaintiff says her husband spent his time in dissipation and idleness, failing to provide sufficient food or clothing for her. At one time she says, her own clothes were attached to secure debts the defendant had contracted. Richie & Richie for plaintiff. November 12, 1904 Del. Bartlett vs. Edith Bartlett. Divorce granted on the ground of gross neglect of duty. The defendant, according to witnesses, refused to live with her husband and is now making her home at Harvey, Ill. November 19, 1904 Mrs. P. W. Cook vs. Leonard Cook. Action for divorce on the ground of cruelty and gross neglect of duty. The petition was filed by Attorney Kent Hughes this afternoon and states that the parties were married Nov. 1, 1899. November 26, 1904 P. H. Booher vs. Stella Booher. Divorce decree won for plaintiff on statutory grounds this morning, proof of defendant's infidelity having been furnished to the satisfaction of the court. Case presented by Copeland and Rogers. November 29, 1904 J. F. Vaunoy vs. Cora B. Vaunoy. The plaintiff charges his wife with cruelty and neglect, mild terms which cover alleged personal assaults and threats to kill. Failure to cook his meals and the use of profanity add expression to her abuse. H. P. Williamson will endeavor to convince the court of Vaunoy's right to a decree of separation. December 31, 1904 Pattie Wave Cook vs. Leonard Cook. At the hearing today Mrs. Cook had no witnesses but strong depositions to support her allegation of cruelty. She was married Nov. 1, 1899, at Paris., and almost from the first, she says she was subjected to wanton cruelty, which she endured for three years. A deposition from a landlady in the South supported the statement of the plaintiff who said her husband had struck her in a public dining room. At another time he shot at her, the bullet striking a door within a few inches of her head. There were no children and for the past year the plaintiff, who is a stenographer has supported herself in Lima. She was represented by Attorney Kent Hughes, who was able to secure for his fair client a decree on the ground of cruelty. Simeon Stewart vs. Susan Stewart. Divorce granted. They were married June 18, 1877, in Miami county, and have a family of grown up children. Abuse charges that could not be substantiated against wife and daughter, and finally abandonment led to the granting of a divorce to the plaintiff, who was represented by Attorney Eastman.