Byrd, Mary J - Samuel J
Source: Greencastle Star Press 21 April 1894 p
8
Mary J. Byrd has filed suit for divorce
against her husband Samuel J. Byrd. The complain sets forth that they were
married about 26 years ago; in June 1893 she obtained a decree of divorce from
him but remarried him again the same month and lived with him until April 1,
1894 when they separated; the cases set forth as a plea for divorce are that he
had drawn an axe on the plaintiff and called her a goggle-eyed B---h and other
foul names; that he gambles and plays cars on Sunday; that the boats of having
illicit relations with other women; that he has threatened to kill her and
sleeps with a knife in his bed; that he would have killed her with a club had
not her daughter interfered; that he uses vile and filthy language and is
otherwise cruel to her. Plaintiff also asks for the custody of their minor
child. Allee & Nelson are the plaintiff’s attorneys. - kbz