Treasure Chest Thursday~Divorce of Dorinda Adair Leath

Dorinda Adair and John R. Leath were married on 17 December 1836 in Kemper County, Mississippi. In early 1842 Dorinda filed for a divorce from John stating that he was a non-resident of the state of Mississippi.  I was unable to locate a final decision but I know that Dorinda remarried about 1842 to Epps Rivers Brown.


The State of Mississippi}
Lauderdale County}

Dorinda Leath, Complainant} Bill for Divorce

vs}                                           in

John R. Leath, defendant}          Chancery.
On motion of the Complainant and it appearing that the Defendant is a non resident of this State, it is ordered by the Court, that publication be made for three successive months, in the Mississippian, a newspaper published in this State, commanding the defendant to appear and plead, answer or demur to said bill , on the first day of the next term of said Court, to be holden for said County, at the Court House thereof, in the town of Marion, on the 4th Monday in May next, or the same will be taken for confessed, and the cause set down for hearing according.
{L.S.} Witness, the Honorable Henry Mounger, presiding Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit Court District, of said state, setting in  Chancery.
Given under my hand and seal of said Court. Issued the 20th of December, A. D. 1841.

Benjamin F. Parker C. C. C. L. C.

January 7, 1842.

Dorinda’s 2nd husband, Epps Rivers Brown, is my 1st Cousin 5 times removed.



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[The Weekly Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi), 4 March 1842, Page 4, column 1.]