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| Divorce
of John Thompson & Frances Jackson |
Reprinted
with permission, Missouri State Genealogical Association Journal,
Spring 1988
(Located
in Record Group 550, 12th General Assembly House of Representative,
File folder 15/8 as held by the Missouri State Archives, Jefferson
City, MO.) Spelling and word usage is typed as used in the original
document.
To
the Honorable The representatives of the Free people of Missouri.
the undersigned would humbly represent to your honors, that our
fellow citizen John Thompson of the County of Monroe in the State
aforesaid, intermarried with one Frances Jackson of the same County
on the 25th day of January A.D. 1838, and that in April following
the said Frances presented to the world a fine Boy.
That
said Thompson in eight or ten days after the marriage discovered (to
great dissatisfaction) the condition of his wife and abandoned her
returning her to her Father where she has been ever since and is
now. Thompson has ever since resided within one and a half miles of
her (ever — marked out). he is a respectable industrious young man
— and it is well known in Monroe that a reconciliation can never
take place and thought that the peculiarities of the case will not
admit of a divorce Judiciary. & was your Honorable body was
instituted for the good his by Said since a fact it is by the of the
people, the whole people, we therefore pray you to interpose in his
behalf, and divorce him from his unfortunate connection — we are
informed & verily believe that her Father was knowing to the
condition of his daughter, & cannot murmur if he has to take
care of her as he was a party to the fraud. we feel satisfied that
it would be better for the unfortunate girl her self to be divorced
from a man she has so smally deceived that he can never lie to her
as husband. please divorce them & as in duty bound we will ever
pray.
Names
of petitioners:
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James R. Abernathy
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Harvey Arnila
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Thos L. Barret
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Thos C__teburg
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Jno E. Thompson?
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Isaac Coppeage
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B. S. Grant
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D. T. Gentry
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Robert C. Bowen
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Hourace? Baker
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Robert Daivson
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Ashley Carter
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Thomas Head
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Bennett Maney
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James Jackson
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John S. Foukes?
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I. W. Wilson(Williams
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Chas Bozarth
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Andrew G. Dickworth
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John Simm?
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Jas N. Moutry
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Jos. C. Bower
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I. M. L. Berry
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John Forsyth
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John Wright
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Martin Bodine
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Wm Vanderhall?
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Milton Anderson
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J Wilimson
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James Woods
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Geo Jones
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Squire Bozarth
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Tho? Pool
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F McCane
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Thomas C. Moore
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William Trost?
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J. C. Williams
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Jonathan Tugman
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Samuel Cartright
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J. W. Glass?
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Alfred Wright
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Solman? Smith
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Samuel Ashlock
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James M. Moors
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Woody? Hill
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Thos Parmer
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John Wood
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Pleasant Ford
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George Blems
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E. W. McBride
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W. W. Williams
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Samuel Root, sr
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James I. Sparks
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W. L. Victor
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Jas Thompson
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Robert Webgb
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William Lamme
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William Runkle
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J. C., Fore?
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J. S. Cunningham
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R. D. Burton
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Robt M. Snell
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R. P. Strother
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A. B. More
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Augustine Moore
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J. G. Cast
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Jno G. Cardwell
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George Cardwell
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George G. Mann Jr
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Yail? Merryman
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J. W. West
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Jacob Ston
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N. L. Appleget
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William A. Sparks
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F. G. Pool
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Landford Ramey
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Milton Saling
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Linsey Gram
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Jno N. Park
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W. Ward
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G. M. Bower
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C. H. Bower
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Peter Carter
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John R. Smith
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Jefferson E. Power
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John Stuk
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Tho S. Miller
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Daniel Franc
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Alex Thompson
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Levi Shortridge
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Samuel Bealmeier
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Saml L. Craig
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James L. lines?
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Joseph Goss
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Jas M. Ray
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John Goodman
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Abraham Mason
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Wm. Stevens
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John Day
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John Pool
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Anthony G. Rickers
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John Pendleton
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William Young
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Tiny? Lord
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Thomas G. Triinbo?
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Martin F. Mason
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Graphics courtesy
of Rhiossampler
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