MCNAIRY COUNTY TN - DEEDS - R. J. EVANS  v.  JAMES A. EVANS

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     [Note:  This is a series of entries for a divorce case for JAMES A.

     EVANS AND REBECCA J. EVANS.  JAMES A. EVANS is the son of JOHN H.

     EVANS and his first wife.  R. J. EVANS is the former REBECCA J.

     MASSINGILL.]





     McNairy County, Tennessee Chancery Court, p. 481 Saturday, 11 October

     1873



     R. J. EVANS  v.  JAMES A. EVANS



     Be it remembered that this cause came on to be heard before the

     Honorable George H. Nixon, chancellor, and it appearing to the court

     that the defendant in this cause is a citizen of Carroll County,

     Tennessee.  That .......... Bill and Subpoena issued on the 20th day

     of August 1873 and into the hands of E. W. WILLIAMS, sheriff of said

     County, and on the 10th day of September 1873, and by him returned

     'not found in my county".  It is therefore ordered by the Court that

     publication be made in the Whig and Tribune a newspaper published in

     the city of Jackson for ...... cause ...... before the next term of

     this court, commanding the said JAMES A. EVANS to appear on or before

     the first Monday of March 1874 and plead ..... or demur to the

     complainant's Bill or the same will be taken for confessed as to him.



     --------------------------------------------------------McNairy

     County, Tennessee Chancery Court, p. 498 Thursday, 9 April 1874



     REBECCA. J. EVANS  v.  JAMES A. EVANS





     Be it remembered that this cause came on to be heard before the

     Honorable George H. Nixon, chancellor of the 9th Chancery Division of

     the State of Tennessee where holding Court of Purdy for McNairy County

     and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the defendant

     JAMES A. EVANS was duly served with process from this Court on the 8th

     day of December 1873 commanding him to appear and answer complainant's

     Bill, and it further appearing that he has failed to plead answer or

     demur to complainant's bill.  It is therefore ordered, adjudged, and

     decreed by thus Court that the allegations in Complainant's bill be

     for confessed as to him and that this cause be set for hearing

     exparte.



     --------------------------------------------------------McNairy

     County, Tennessee Chancery Court, p. 526 Wednesday, 7 October 1874



     R. J. EVANS  v.  JAMES A. EVANS





     In this cause the defendant presented his affadavit and moved the

     court to set aside the Order Pro Confesso heretofore had [issued] in

     this cause and it appearing to the Court that the affadavit is

     sufficient to the court, doth order that the Order Pro Confesso had in

     this cause be set aside for nothing had and held that the defendant be

     allowed to file his answer in this cause which is filed accordingly.



     --------------------------------------------------------McNairy

     County, Tennessee Chancery Court, p. 538 Friday, 9 October 1874



     R. J. EVANS  v.  JAMES A. EVANS



     Be it remembered that this cause came to be heard before Chancellor

     Nixon when holding court at Purdy on the ninth day of October 1874

     upon the Bill and answer and the proof in the cause and it appearing

     that the conduct of the defendant toward this complainant was so cruel

     and inhuman as to compel the complainant to withdraw from his dominion

     and control.  It is therefore ordered by the Court that the bonds of

     matrimony subsisting between the Plaintiff and defendant be dissolved

     and for nothing held and that the defendant pay the cost of this suit

     for which execution may issue.