Divorces A
A - DIVORCES
ABRAHAM, Grant - Stella
Source: Crawfordsville Review 22 June 1911 p 1
At the annual summer vacation drawn nearer the wheels of the Montgomery County divorce mill are grinding out decrees daily. Thursday two mismatched pairs were given legal separation, Judge West hearing testimony in chambers, the court room being occupied by the Gray ditch case. Letha McClelland was granted a divorce from Everett McClelland and give the care and custody of her infant daughter. Cruelty and failure to provide were the grounds on which a decree was asked. WM Reeves was plaintiff’s attorney.
Grant Abraham was granted a divorce from his wife, Stella Abraham, the complaint alleging cruelty and refusal of the defendant to live with him.
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ACKER - Mort -
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal Tuesday, 21 August 1894
For eight or ten years Mort Acker has been jumping up against the big iron doors of the penitentiary trying to get in and there are those who seem to think that his perseverance will yet be rewarded. Mort has figured in more disreputable escapades than any young man in Crawfordsville or the region round about and now the police are after him.
Some years ago the versatile young gentleman married a daughter of Betty Plush, the fat lady who operates out beyond the Monon Station in what is commonly known as the “Black Hills.” It appears that for several moons Mort and his wife have not been getting on exactly as husband and wife should get on. Last night matters came to a climax when Mort descended on the home of his portly mother-in-law intent on killing his wife. He fiercely attacked her with a stout cudgel, and inflamed by liquor and passion as he was, would undoubtedly have killed her, but for the armed interference of the inmates of the place. This morning Mrs. Acker instituted proceedings for divorce against her husband and also filed a complaint before Prosecutor Moffett charging Mort with assault and battery with intent to kill.
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ADAMS, Hub - Maude
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal 28 October 1914
Hub Adams, well known colored young man, filed suit for divorce from his wife, Maud Adams, in circuit court here Tuesday afternoon. Hub states in his complaint that his wife treated him cruelly calling him vile names, accusing him of being in love with his former sweetheart, refusing to prepare his meals and finally deserting him. The plaintiff alleges that when Maud left she remarked that she "was going to Tennessee as the sunny south was good enough for her," the plaintiff is represented by WM Reeves. -- kbz
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ADAMS, John - Minnie
Source: Crawfordsville Review 16 Nov 1895 p 7
Mrs. Minnie Douglass Adams has applied for a divorce from her husband, John. She was married in Lebanon in 1092 (sic – maybe 1892?). Minnie says her Johnnie cruelly treated her and at one time threw her from a buggy and run over her and from the effects of which she has never fully recovered. Mrs. Adams also asks for $3,000 alimony. Mr. Adams is in the buggy business at Lebanon.- kbz
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ALEXANDER, Hiram - Dora
Source: Crawfordsville Review
Thursday Jan 20, 1916
Hiram ALEXANDER said to be living in Danville, Ill was made the defendant in a divorce suit yesterday by his wife Zora L. Alexander of this city. The woman alleges he abandoned her for the palpable reason of causing a separation. An additional charge made by the wife is failure to provide. In the complaint it is state they were married in Crawfordsville May 22, 1909 and separated Feb 1912. The plaintiff is represented by Harry N. Fine. - kbz
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ALLEN, Hattie - Stephen
Source: Crawfordsville Star Sept 3, 1896 p 7
Mrs. Stephen Allen has applied for divorce on the grounds of abuse and cruelty. She states that Stephen cursed and abused her, knocked her down and choked her and accused her of being a bad woman. She asks a division of his property which she says is $1,000, a permanet divorce and the restoration of her maiden name Hattie Corey - typed by kbz
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ALLEN, Mahala - G.W.
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, 18 January 1890
Mahala C. Allen has been granted a divorce from G. W. Allen and received the custody of the child.– thanks to Kim H
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AMBROSE, Flora vs. --
Source: Crawfordsville Review 20 Aug 1892 p 5
Divorce day in the September term of the circuit court promises the usual rich, rare and racy digest.
Mrs. Flora Ambrose through her attorneys, White, Humphries & Reeves also presented her peck of troubles. In her complaint Mrs. Ambrose alleges that she served him until April 4 of this year; that during this period he crused and beat her, had accused her of undue intimacy with other men and at one time attempted to kill her by smothering her with a pillow. She also asks for the custody of their child.
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AMMERMAN, Bertha - Charles
Source: Lafayette Journal and Courier Wed 28 Nov 1934 p 3
Crawfordsville – Bertha Ammerman was granted a divorce in circuit court here from Charles Lee Ammerman but hearing as to custody of their four children was continued.
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Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal 25 Aug 1899 p 5
Two Cases were filed in the Clerk's Office and the Allegations of the Plaintiff Are the Same.
Edna J. Mullikin asks a divorce from Jas. B. Mullikin, to whom she was married in 1880. She states that they lived together until August of this year and that one child, now fourteen years old, was born to them, who is now living with the mother. Mrs. Mullikin alleges that the recreant husband has violated the seventh commandment in Indianapolis and in this city, and he not only confessed to the crime, but gloried in it. The plaintiff asks the custody of the child and all proper relief. The parties are from New Market.
Wm. H. Arnold also asks a divorce from Julia Arnold, to whom he was married in 1887. He states that they lived together until June of the present year, when his wife's relations with Joseph Mitchell became the talk of the town. Arnold is a cook by trade and is the fellow who had a scrap with the co-respondent Mitchell several months ago in which he nearly finished the fellow. Arnold is a hardworking man and asks that the court give him the care and custody of the three children born of his marriage. Mrs. Arnold, he alleges, has stated her intention of living with Mitchell, so he wants to give her the opportunity to gratify her desire. The parties are colored people.
Source: Same page 1 – Mrs. Julia Arnold has filed a cross complaint in answer to her husband’s petition for divorce. She alleges cruel and inhuman treatment and failure to provide. She states that Arnold made her get up out of a warm bed and chase out on the snowy and sleety sidewalks to find shelter at a friends, threatening to kill her if she came back. She says that Arnold charged her with associating with other men and that this statement is false. She asks the care and custody of their children and 4300 per annum for their maintenance. – kbz