Martha Jane Boyd and Joseph Turney Blair divorce 1896
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Martha Jane Boyd and Joseph Turney Blair divorce 1896
| HeatherBlair (View posts) | Posted: 6 May 2008 5:16PM GMT |
Classification: Query
Surnames: Boyd, Sooter, Blair
[This was from a very crumbly and stinky volume at the courthouse. But here goes:]
p. 377-8
September Term 7th Day, September 19th 1896
Martha J. Blair
vs.
J. T. Blair
Bill in Equity
On this day this cause came on for hearing on the Bill, process and depositions of it affirming to the court that Plaintiff and Defendant intermarried in Searcy County Ark in the year 1886 and lived together as husband and wife until about the last of October 1894, at which time they separated and are still living separated, and that Plaintiff is a resident of the State of Arkansas and has been for more than one year before the bringing of this suit. And that while Plaintiff and Defendant were living together that Defendant offered such indignities to Plaintiff as to render her condition intolerable and that this cause for divorce accrued within the next five years before the bringing of this suit and that there were born as the issue of said marriage Millis L and Rea Blair.
It is therefore considered, adjudged and decreed by the court that the bonds of matrimony heretofore existing be dissolved and held for naught, that the custody of said children be decreed the Plaintiff with leave of Defendant's visiting them at reasonable times and that Defendant pay all the cost of this suit laid out and expended and also for U. S. Bratton Atty fee of Fifty Dollars for which [suing?] let execution issue and the court further finds that it is agreed by and between Plaintiff and Defendant and that Plaintiff have for her alimony one more [?] now in the possession of plaintiff, 1 pided cow, six sheep, all now in possession of plaintiff and all hogs now in the possession of plaintiff and one wagon now in possession of plaintiff absolute. Also, life estate of Plaintiff in one third in quantity of Defendants real estate in Searcy County Ark described in Plaintiff's complaint to be taken off of the South Side of the tract of land in which Defendants farm is situated. And it is further agreed by and between Plaintiff and Defendant that W. F. Boyd be appointed as Commissioner to lay off said Plaintiff's interest in said land and that Defendant execute and deliver deed to Plaintiff for land allotted by said Commissioner & to report proceedings at the next term of this court, and have said deed here in court for confirmation or rejection. It is therefore considered, adjudged and decreed by the court that Plaintiff have the foregoing personal property absolutely and that she have a life estate in the foregoing Real Estate and that W. F. Boyd be appointed as commissioner to lay off said lands as herein set forth and make his report at the text term of this court and by agreement this cause is continued until the next term of this court for the purpose he bring this report. And it affirming that this order should have been entered in yesterday it is entered now for them.
p. 377-8
September Term 7th Day, September 19th 1896
Martha J. Blair
vs.
J. T. Blair
Bill in Equity
On this day this cause came on for hearing on the Bill, process and depositions of it affirming to the court that Plaintiff and Defendant intermarried in Searcy County Ark in the year 1886 and lived together as husband and wife until about the last of October 1894, at which time they separated and are still living separated, and that Plaintiff is a resident of the State of Arkansas and has been for more than one year before the bringing of this suit. And that while Plaintiff and Defendant were living together that Defendant offered such indignities to Plaintiff as to render her condition intolerable and that this cause for divorce accrued within the next five years before the bringing of this suit and that there were born as the issue of said marriage Millis L and Rea Blair.
It is therefore considered, adjudged and decreed by the court that the bonds of matrimony heretofore existing be dissolved and held for naught, that the custody of said children be decreed the Plaintiff with leave of Defendant's visiting them at reasonable times and that Defendant pay all the cost of this suit laid out and expended and also for U. S. Bratton Atty fee of Fifty Dollars for which [suing?] let execution issue and the court further finds that it is agreed by and between Plaintiff and Defendant and that Plaintiff have for her alimony one more [?] now in the possession of plaintiff, 1 pided cow, six sheep, all now in possession of plaintiff and all hogs now in the possession of plaintiff and one wagon now in possession of plaintiff absolute. Also, life estate of Plaintiff in one third in quantity of Defendants real estate in Searcy County Ark described in Plaintiff's complaint to be taken off of the South Side of the tract of land in which Defendants farm is situated. And it is further agreed by and between Plaintiff and Defendant that W. F. Boyd be appointed as Commissioner to lay off said Plaintiff's interest in said land and that Defendant execute and deliver deed to Plaintiff for land allotted by said Commissioner & to report proceedings at the next term of this court, and have said deed here in court for confirmation or rejection. It is therefore considered, adjudged and decreed by the court that Plaintiff have the foregoing personal property absolutely and that she have a life estate in the foregoing Real Estate and that W. F. Boyd be appointed as commissioner to lay off said lands as herein set forth and make his report at the text term of this court and by agreement this cause is continued until the next term of this court for the purpose he bring this report. And it affirming that this order should have been entered in yesterday it is entered now for them.