Petition #20185718

Abstract

Mary Turner, by her next friend Perry D. Yancy, seeks a divorce from her husband Abner D. Turner. During the summer of 1853, she testifies, he attempted to "smother her with Tobacco smoke," knocked her down "with violence," gave her a venereal disease, and "whipped her severely with a Leather strop, with a wooden handle such as was used to correct disobedient slaves." This "cruel and inhuman" treatment came despite the fact that she was pregnant "with her first and only child, the fruit of said marriage, now a little Girl about four years old." In September 1853, he left for the west and she has not seen him since.

Result: Granted.

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Repository: Tallapoosa County Courthouse, Dadeville, Alabama

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