Married to Melissa Whatley in August 1865, John J. Smith charges that his bride was already pregnant, though not "sufficiently advanced" to "make it observable." Later, he says, she gave birth to a mulatto child, whose father, he asserts, "is one Spence alias Spencer, a full-blooded negro, formerly a Slave belonging to Presly Davis." Smith asks for a divorce.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Pike County Courthouse, Troy, Alabama