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From: "Patricia P. Hickin" <>
Subject: Re: Divorce in 1850s
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 14:15:53 -0200


Lori -- I'm not sure. There was a new state constitutiion in 1851 I think
and whether divorces changed after that I don't know. Do you know the
county the person lived in?

Pat

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From: Lori <>
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Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: Divorce in 1850s


> I have an ancestor divorced in approx. 1857 from the Wheeling area of WV.
Does
> this information still apply?
>
> Lori
>
> "Patricia P. Hickin" wrote:
>
> > I don't know about Ohio but in Virginia one obtained a divorce by
> > petitioning the state legislature, which would refer it to committee
> > (justice??) and if recommended etc would then pass a bill to effect the
> > divorce. Many of these - read 150 years later -- are amusing but there
was
> > plenty of pain then. In Virginia they are filed with other legislative
> > petitions chronologically by county and are now in the Archives Division
of
> > the Lib of Va.
> >
> > Patricia Prickett Hickin
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