Parilee Adcock desires to end her ten-month-long marriage to Beverly Adcock. The petitioner submits that, "on last Christmas night," her husband "beat and abused the person of Your Oratrix with such wantonness and cruelty as greatly to endanger her life." She further confides that she "was then far gone in pregnacy" and that "he beat her head with his fist so as to greatly injure her mind and reason." Parilee laments that "she was delivered of her child about two months after and said child was still born with its head greatly apparently beat and marked." Recalling that her husband left her "about three months ago and has lately gone to the state of Mississippi," she states that he sold a "negro woman and child" and some livestock before he abandoned her, leaving behind a mare and two enslaved children, four-year-old Calvin and two-year-old Abram. Fearful that he will try "to defeat her of her alimony," Parilee prays that "he be enjoined and restrained from removing Sd. negro boys or selling or disposing of them & said mare." She also asks "that by Your Honors decree a divorce from bed and board be granted to her against said defendant."
Result: Partially granted.
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Repository: Williamson County Courthouse, Franklin, Tennessee
