Caroline P. Walker seeks a divorce from her husband, Lawrence W. Walker Jr. She states during the last months of their marriage "the said Lawrence treated her with the utmost neglect and indiference-neglecting and refusing to give your Oratrix that attention and nursing which she in her condition may reasonably expect from her husband and actually required for the preservation of her life." Caroline also claims Lawrence "has fallen into the crime of adultery with a certain slave" and "with other women whose names are unknown." The petitioner therefore seeks a divorce and asks, in lieu of alimony, to retain her separate property which includes a number of slaves, certain household furniture, and land.
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Repository: Noxubee County Courthouse, Macon, Mississippi
