1901 Divorces - Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Emily Jordan 24 Dec 2005 Return to Oklahoma County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/oklahoma/oklahoma.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== (9/27/1901) John T. Reynolds was granted a decree of divorce from Mamie Reynolds. (9/29/1901) DISTRICT COURT. Two Divorce Cases Two divorce cases were heard. In the case of Mary A. Klingerman vs. Solomon Klingerman a decree was granted the plaintiff and possession of the child. In the case of Thomas P. Cheshire vs. Angeline Cheshire a decree was denied the plaintiff. (9/29/1901) Gertrude Morton vs. John Manton, the plaintiff was given a decree of divorce with her maiden name. (10/2/1901) District Court Proceedings The case of Nettie Kitterman vs. J.D. Kitterman, asking divorce for alleged nonsupport was filed. (10/4/1901) DENIED A DECREE—Late last night the hearing in the case of Martin vs. Martin was completed and Judge Burwell gave his verdict, denying the plaintiff a decree of divorce but granting her 150 acres of land, $625 in cash and $50 for attorneys fees and all costs in the suit as alimony. She was also given the custody of the children. The costs which will have to be paid by the defendant will be very heavy as there are a large number of witnesses to be paid. (10/13/1901) Ona Collins has filed her petition for divorce from J.H. Collins alleging gross neglect. They were married in 1897. (10/30/1901) District Court Adjourn Mrs. Sorrecta A. Houchen filed her petition for divorce from her husband, Walter R. Houchen. They were married in March 1900. In her petition she alleges extreme cruelty. (11/2/1901) DIVORCE CASE FILED.—In the probate court yesterday George D. Hall filed a suit in the district court asking the court to grant him a decree of divorce from his wife Mary C. Hall. They were married, the petition states, in 1886. The petition alleges neglect. (11/19/1901) SUIT FOR DIVORCE.—Mrs. Ruth McDavie has brought suit in the district court for divorce from her husband, C.E. McDavie, charging him with abandonment. She also asks the court to give her husband the title to certain lots in South Oklahoma City and Oak Park additions to Oklahoma City. She alleges that she paid to McDavie a short time before he left the sum of $350.00 as purchase price for the lots in question and that he was to have deeded the property to her but he left without doing so. (11/27/1901) SUES HER ATTORNEY.—Mrs. Victoria Martin has brought suit in the district court against W.P. Wilson, the attorney who had charge of the suit which she brought against her husband recently to obtain a divorce and alimony. In her petition she alleges that Attorney Wilson charged her too much for his services. She alleges that he has money which belongs to her in the sum of $1,299.20. Judge M. Fulton is attorney for Mrs. Martin in this suit. (12/4/1901) HANS THREW BRICKS AT AMELIA HIS WIFE In the district court yesterday a petition was filed by Amelia M. Clausen asking divorce from Hans N. Clausen and control of the four children which have appeared to continue the thread of consanguinity if not the house of Clausen. The long manuscript which relates the woes of the Clausens recites that Amelia and Hans were made one in Kent county, Nebraska in 1892, and are now residents of Oklahoma City, and the better half makes a strong motion for dissolution of the oneness. If Hans ever was an affectionate swain, the allegations of the petition, if true, indicate that the redoubtable Hans has degenerated from the real thing and has forgotten the early training received at Dan Cupid's school of love and affectionate reciprocity. Amelia asserts that Hans is so far off the marital trolley wire that he is guilty of extreme cruelty and has repeatedly driven her from home. She even asserts that she believes her life to be in peril and has been compelled to hide from her liege lord. Now sometimes the throwing of bouquets or kisses is regarded as an indication of ultra- affection, but Amelia believes that when a husband shies brickbats at his frow it is no token of esteem. At least she gives it as one of the causes of her action for divorce. That, however, is not the worst of the allegations. Amelia recites that on one occasion Hans pursued her to a neighbor's where he tried to effect entrance and orain her with a fence post. The plaintiff alleges also that she believes the lives of her children are endangered, especially when Hans is agitated by an over-indulgence in a bad quality of bug-juice. She says he deserted her early in October, 1901, leaving the rent past due and nothing in the house to eat, no shower of manna in sight and no fishes or loaves to be –presto!- converted into an increase of a thousand fold. No; she was compelled to work from house to house to maintain herself and children and says that although Hans was earning liberal wages, he failed to make good and did not come to their support. All these things Amelia believes should secure her the desired divorcement, together with other equitable relief, and asks that Hans be compelled to pay $5 a week for their support pending the court's decision. (12/31/1901) DISTRICT COURT. A decree was granted in the divorce case of Collins vs. Collins. (12/31/1901) FILED PETITION FOR DIVORCE.—In the probate court yesterday Mrs. Alice Griffin filed suit against her husband, Daniel Griffin, asking the court to grant her an absolute divorce. She alleges that they were married in Ohio in 1898, and says that her husband has failed to provide for her.