BOOHER, Flavius J. vs. Nancy M.
Source: New Ross Mail 27 Oct 1899 p 6
The allegations of the Flavius J. and Nancy M. Booher case of New Ross which was venued from Montgomery to Boone County which comes up in the Boone court this term is given in substance as follows by the Lebanon papers: They were married June 28, 1893 in this county and lived together until July 1898 when she left him. Booher claims that he treated his wife in a manner becoming a loving, indulgent husband but she cursed, struck and in other ways maltreated him. He alleges that since their separation he has learned of her infidelity to the marital vow and charges that on numerous occasions she held improper relations with one Harry Gott; also maintained similar relations with Charles Stevenson, George Powell and others. He asks for a decree of divorce and the custody of their children, Marvin, aged 4 and Brazil aged two and has employed Johnston & Johnston of Crawfordsville to present his fight. Mrs. Booher files a cross-complaint in which she sets up a state of facts very different from that of her husband. She says that she was compelled to leave him in July 1898 because of cruel and inhuman treatment. She says she is 10 or 12 years younger than her husband and that he has always maintained toward her an arbitrary, jealous and overbearing spirit. Not many months after their marriage she avers, he caused her to accompany him to Crawfordsville, a drive of 14 miles, through the cold, where she was compelled to stand around all day on the streets or in the stores, resulting in a miscarriage before they could return home. She says he was obliging and pleasant to the outside world but constantly commanding dictatorial and severe with her. After their two children were born he treated her better for a timebut his conduct again became unbearable. He charged her with infidelity, forbid her speaking to other men and set spies to watch her. She finally notified him in July 1898 that she would no longer stand his abuse and in parting he struck and choked her. She says he has real estate value at $8500 and person property to the among of $3,000. He is not a fit person to keep the children, she says and she prays for a divorce on her cross-complaint, $8900 alimony and the custody of the children. Clodfelter & Fine are her lawyers.
Source: New Ross Mail 27 Oct 1899 p 31
Flavius J. Booher has been granted a divorce in the Boone County court from Nancy Booher, plaintiff to have custody of the two children, aged 14 and 12, defendant to pay cost of suit and is to receive $1,000 in money and half of the person property.