Petition #20184825

Abstract

Epsey M. McMath, by her next friend, John D. Johnson, amends her original divorce petition to insert the name of Sarah Byrd as her husband's lover. She charges that Joseph McMath and Byrd had illegitimate intercourse on a number of occasions during 1843 and early 1844. She charges that he also had criminal intercourse with other women, one of whom bore him an illegitimate child. Furthermore, Epsey asserts that Joseph "is violently affected with sundry venereal diseases the names of which are omitted only on the ground of decency but which may be sufficiently described by representing them in particular as the two most common diseases which result from indiscriminate lewdness."

Result: Granted.

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Repository: Pickens County Courthouse, Carrollton, Alabama

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