Petition #21084914

Abstract

Margaret O'Conner seeks a divorce from Luke O'Conner, whom she married in Arkansas in September 1842. She confides that said Luke "became unfaithful and committed adultery with other women so that he became diseased in consequence thereof." Citing many instances of cruelty, the petitioner charges Luke of living "in open adultery" with a female slave named Jane. The petitioner prays for the dissolution of the marriage, alimony, and writs of injunction and subpoena against the defendant. A deposition asserts that Margaret O'Conner ran a boarding house where five or seven women "occupied rooms in the back part of the building" and "said women were looked upon as women of easy virtue."

Result: Granted.

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Repository: Adams County Courthouse, Natchez, Mississippi

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