Darnell vs Darnell-Divorce-1844

DARNELL

Posted By: Henry Co Volunteer (email)
Date: 3/17/2004 at 19:00:22

Hawk Eye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
April 25, 1844

Territory of Iowa
Henry county, sct.
District Court of said county, June Term, 1844

Sarah E. Darnell vs. Sanford Darnell
In Chancery petition for Divorce.

The said Sanford Darnell will hereby take notice that on the 16th day of December, 1843, the said Sarah E. Darnell filed in the office of the Clerk of the District court aforesaid her petition or bill of complaint against him in the above entitled suit, praying a divorce from the bonds of matrimony for the following cause, to wit: the wilful desertion of the said Sanford Darnell for more than one year without any just cause or provocation. And unless the said Sanford Darnell shall be and appear before said court at the term thereof to be begun and holden at Mount Pleasant in said county, on the fourth Monday in June 1844, and answer the said complainants bill, the same will be taken as confessed and decree entered accordingly.

E. KILLPATRICK, Clerk.

Wallace & Munger, compt, sols.