Petition #20784412

Abstract

Mary Ann Owens states that on 1 July 1841 her husband Grandison Owens, while drunk and without provocation, beat her mercilessly. She managed to get out of the house whereupon he followed her, continued to beat her, and ultimately took a shot at her, hitting a dog instead. Mary Ann has been staying with her mother since the attack and claims that Grandison took revenge by selling off some of her property. She asks that Grandison be required to answer these charges, that he be compelled to reach a financial settlement with her for the items sold, and that a divorce be granted. In an amended bill, Mary Ann Owens noted that her mother has since passed away and that an inherited slave woman and her two children were sold "to prevent said Grandison from taking & secreting them which she has been informed & believes he threatened to do."

Result: Granted.

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Repository: Kentucky Division of Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky

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