Lampasas County Texas Archives News.....Sneed vs Sneed October 1, 1859
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Lampasas Chronicle, Lampasas, Texas October 1, 1859
State of Texas }                     District Court
Lampasas County}              Fall Term, A D 1859
William Sneed vs Louisa Sneed.
The State of Texas to the Sheriff or
Other legal officer of said county:
Greeting:
Whereas, William Sneed of the county of Lampasas and State of Texas, has field
his petition in the Clerk’s office of the county of Lampasas and State of Texas
against Louisa Sneed whose residence in unknown.  In which petition he alleges
among other things that he was lawfully married to the said Louisa Sneed,
sometime in the 1856.  That he well and truly performed all and singular duties
of a kind and affectionate husband; that he so continued to live in the bonds of
wedlock with the said Louisa up to about the month of October, AD 1857, when the
said Louisa disregarding the legal and moral duties of wife, did charge and
prosecute your petitioner with an assault and batery, upon the person of her,
the said Louisa; that on or about the date above written, the said Louisa for
her own wicked purpose did charge and prosecute this petitioner with and for
Larceny, and that the said Louisa, other and grevious cruelties and enormities
did to petitioner calculated to render him infamous, and whereby, the living
with the aforesaid Louisa became unsupportable, and that on or about the 14th
day of October A D 1857, the said Louisa disregarding the ties of wedlock life,
and contemning her legal duties, did abandon the home and protection of this
petitioner, and still continues absent therefrom –
Wherefore, petitioner prays that process issue to Louisa Sneed citing her to
appear before the District Court of Lampasas county at the next regular term
thereof on the 10th Monday after the 2nd Monday in September 1859, to show
cause, if any she can, why a decree of divorce should not be rendered desolving
the bonds of matrimony between aforesaid William and Louisa Sneed, and then and
there to answer this petition of said plaintiff of which this is a brief.
These are therefore to command you to summon the aforesaid Louisa Sneed by
publication as the law directs in the Lampasas Chronicle, a newspaper published
in the county of Lampasas for four consecutive weeks to be and appear before the
District Court to be holden in and for the county of Lampasas and State of Texas
on the 10th Monday after the 2nd Monday in September, 1859, then and there to
answer the petition of said plaintiff, of which the foregoing is brief statement.
Herein fail not, but due return make of this writ with your return endorsed
thereon, showing how you have executed the same, as the law directs.
Witness, Wm. T. Murray, Clerk of the District Court of Lampasas county.  Given
under my hand and seal of said Court at office in the Town of Lampasas, this
September 2nd A D 1859   W.T. Murray, C.K DCLC
The foregoing is a true copy of the original, and ordered to be published in the
Lampasas Chronicle for four successive weeks as the law directs.
Wm. H. Storm, Dept’y, Shff. L. C.
Lampasas, Sept. 3rd n10 4w
Prs Fee $17.50


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