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From the Lima Times Democrat
Divorce Petitions and Decrees
1904
 
				February 2, 1904
 
Mary E. McNeal vs. John N. McNeal.  Attorney O. W. Smith has prepared a petition 
asking for a 
divorce for Mary E. McNeal, who was married to John N. McNeal April 24, 1888.  
It contains a 
number of the allegations which the law supports as cause for separation, 
habitual drunkenness, 
extreme cruelty and gross neglect of duty all being charged.  The wife complains 
that the 
defendant, frequently intoxicated, brutally assaulted her, and that he did not 
provide for herself or 
their one child.
 
				February 5, 1904
 
Catherine Disney vs. Samuel Disney.  Several days ago the divorce suit was 
recorded but withheld 
from publication to give the plaintiff's attorneys an opportunity to locate the 
defendant for proper 
service.  Not being able to do so, service has been legally had by publication.  
Charges of gross 
neglect of duty and willful absence are made.
 
				February 29, 1904
 
Lola E. Stratton vs. Lafayette Stratton.  Divorce granted on the grounds of 
gross neglect of duty.  
Mrs. Stratton was given a decree, custody of the three children and allowed 
$1,000 alimony, but as 
the husband is a day laborer and is said to work only when he has to, it is not 
likely that she will 
receive much, if anything from him.  D. C. Henderson presented the case.
 
				March 14, 1904
 
Sidney L. Curtis vs. Pearl L. Curtis.  Married on the 3rd of February, 1901; 
petition charges wife 
with desertion, that she left him October 16, 1903, and since that time they 
have not lived together.  
He charges that she committed adultery with Alvin A. Furry and confessed her 
love for him in 
preference to her husband.  Copeland & Rogers represent the plaintiff.
 
				March 22, 1904
 
George Morris vs. Emma Morris.  Plaintiff asks for a divorce on the ground of 
willful absence for 
more than three years.  They were married October 23, 1895, but no children were 
born.  The case 
was brought by Welty and Downing.
 
				May 9, 1904
 
Dollie M. Cole vs. Chas. E. Cole.  They were married March 12, 1900, at Celina.  
She says she and 
her only child were deserted last month, and the whereabouts of the husband and 
father are 
unknown.  Gross neglect of duty, which consisted in failure to provide the 
necessaries of life, and 
association with dessolute women, is charged.  Plaintiff says she invested $700 
left by her father in 
lot 3251 McPherson & Phillips addition and she asks that her husband be deprived 
of any dower 
interest in the property.  A divorce and custody of the child are prayed for.
 
Lina Evick vs. David F. Evick.  Mrs. Evick was married to defendant at West 
Cairo, April 2, 1902, 
and was deserted on the 2nd of last March, being left with a 10 month old son.  
She says her 
husband was cruel to her, coming home to abuse and threaten her while in an 
intoxicated condition.  
His wages, she says was spent for drink and she was compelled to live mostly by 
her own exertions 
and such help as she could secure from her family.
 
				May 26, 1904
 
Mable L. Mechling vs. Arden Mechling.  She is left to support herself and two 
children, Robert, 
aged 6 and Jennetta, aged 4.  In the petition for divorce filed by T. R. 
Hamilton, Mrs. Mechling 
charges her husband with abandoning her and says he has been willfully absent 
for more than three 
years.  They were married April 9, 1881.
 
John Grady vs. Elizabeth Grady.  Judge Mathers, of Sidney, is hearing the 
divorce suit in the 
private room of Judge Cunningham.  An answer and cross petition was filed by 
Mrs. Grady, but she 
is making no defense at the hearing, being satisfied with the intentions of her 
husband to secure a 
separation.  From the allegations contained in the petition and the answer, the 
couple have lived 
anything but a happy life.
 
				May 28, 1904
 
Sidney L. Curtis vs. Pearl A. Curtis.  Divorce granted on the ground of gross 
neglect of duty.
 
Louise Slater vs. Wm. E. Slater.  Divorce granted on the ground of gross neglect 
of duty and 
violation of the statutory law.
 
				June 1, 1904
 
O. A. Peterson vs. Anna Peterson.  Divorce granted by Judge Mathers.
 
				June 13, 1904
 
John W. Odell vs. Lizzie Odell.  The plaintiff, an oil well driller, who lives 
in Bluffton, is an 
applicant for a divorce, charging that he was deserted by his wife, Lizzie 
Odell, to whom he was 
married at Bowling Green, June 22, 1901.  He says that while he was at work in 
the oil field his 
wife sold $125 worth of household goods for $15 and then left, since which time 
she has refused to 
live with him.
 
				June 21, 1904
 
Cora Linn vs. Miner Linn.  Divorce granted yesterday.  The plaintiff furnished 
evidence to prove 
that her husband deserted her some years ago, leaving his family without means 
of support.
 
				June 28, 1904
 
Mattie L. Douglas vs. Emanuel Douglas.  Gross neglect of duty is charged, and 
the plaintiff says 
her husband spent his time in dissipation and idleness, failing to provide 
sufficient food or clothing 
for her.  At one time she says, her own clothes were attached to secure debts 
the defendant had 
contracted.  Richie & Richie for plaintiff.
 
				November 12, 1904
 
Del. Bartlett vs. Edith Bartlett.  Divorce granted on the ground of gross 
neglect of duty.  The 
defendant, according to witnesses, refused to live with her husband and is now 
making her home at 
Harvey, Ill.
 
				November 19, 1904
 
Mrs. P. W. Cook vs. Leonard Cook.  Action for divorce on the ground of cruelty 
and gross neglect 
of duty.  The petition was filed by Attorney Kent Hughes this afternoon and 
states that the parties 
were married Nov. 1, 1899.
 
				November 26, 1904
 
P. H. Booher vs. Stella Booher.  Divorce decree won for plaintiff on statutory 
grounds this 
morning, proof of defendant's infidelity having been furnished to the 
satisfaction of the court.  Case 
presented by Copeland and Rogers.
 
				November 29, 1904
 
J. F. Vaunoy vs. Cora B. Vaunoy.  The plaintiff charges his wife with cruelty 
and neglect, mild 
terms which cover alleged personal assaults and threats to kill.  Failure to 
cook his meals and the 
use of profanity add expression to her abuse.  H. P. Williamson will endeavor to 
convince the court 
of Vaunoy's right to a decree of separation.
 
				December 31, 1904
 
Pattie Wave Cook vs. Leonard Cook.  At the hearing today Mrs. Cook had no 
witnesses but strong 
depositions to support her allegation of cruelty.  She was married Nov. 1, 1899, 
at Paris., and 
almost from the first, she says she was subjected to wanton cruelty, which she 
endured for three 
years.  A deposition from a landlady in the South supported the statement of the 
plaintiff who said 
her husband had struck her in a public dining room.  At another time he shot at 
her, the bullet 
striking a door within a few inches of her head.  There were no children and for 
the past year the 
plaintiff, who is a stenographer has supported herself in Lima.  She was 
represented by Attorney 
Kent Hughes, who was able to secure for his fair client a decree on the ground 
of cruelty.
 
Simeon Stewart vs. Susan Stewart.  Divorce granted.  They were married June 18, 
1877, in Miami 
county, and have a family of grown up children.  Abuse charges that could not be 
substantiated 
against wife and daughter, and finally abandonment led to the granting of a 
divorce to the plaintiff, 
who was represented by Attorney Eastman.
 
