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From: "Patricia P. Hickin" <>
Subject: Re: Divorce in 1850s
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 19:41:06 -0200


Lori, I'll try to check for you sometime soon if you'll send me the name.

Pat


----- Original Message -----
From: Lori <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: Divorce in 1850s


> Yes, Ohio County, WV. Wheeling area.
>
> Lori
>
> "Patricia P. Hickin" wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Lori <>
> > To: <>
> > 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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