Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-02-16
LIBEL FOR DIVORCE

To the Honorable County Court,
next to be held at Guildhan, within
and for the County of Essex, on the
fourth Tuesday of April, 1929, comes
Jessie l, Donovan, of Concord, in the
County of Essex, and State of YER
mont, and respectfully shows that on
the 9th day of March, 1906, at
Swanton, in the County of Franklin,
and State of Vermont, she was law
fully married to Daniel A. Donovan,
then of Swanton aforesaid, and now
without the State but of parts un-
known, by Rev. M. S. Eddy, Minis
ter of the Gospel duly authorized by
law to solemnize marriages, and
thereafterwards cohabited with the
said Daniel A. Donovan in the State
of Vermont; that during the cover
ture she, on her part, has faithfully
kept the marriage covenant.
| And your libelant further shows
that, thereafter on the LIST day of
March, 1907, and from said day to
the first day Of January, 1918, the
! libelee treated the libelant with in
tolerable severity and on the day and
year last aforesaid, the libelant by
reason of such intolerable severity
was forced to and did cease to cohab-
it with the libelee.
And your libelant further shows
that the libelee being Of sufficient pc
cuniary and physical ability to pro-
vide suitable maintenance for her,
has without cause, grossly, wantonly,
and cruelty refused and neglected so
to do.
And your libelant further shows
that the libelee willfully and without
just cause deserted the libelant for
three consecutive years and that
since the first day Of January, 1918,
the libelant has refused and still does
refuse to cohabit with the libeles.
Your libelant further shows that
she has one child the fruit Of said
marriage, whose name and age Il as
follows: Raymond Donovan,age3 ten
years, and that the interests Of said
child will be best promoted by grant
ing to the libelant the care and Gus
tody Of said child during his minority.
J Your libelant further shows that
she has resided in the State of YER
mont for eighteen years last past and
for the last year and half in said
Concord, in the County of Essex,and
has not cohabited with the libelee
since the LIST day of January, 1918.
Your libelant further deposes and
says that since the said 1st day of
January, 1918, she has never seen or
communicated with the libelee and
that she was informed and believed
that he died during the year 1918:
that in the year 1921 she received a
postal card purporting to come from
him and being addressed at Rock
vile, Connecticut, whereupon she
caused diligent inquiries to be made
of his relatives and officials in said
Rockville, and among his friends and
acquaintance there and has been I'M
able to locate him and has since been
informed that he is somewhere in the
Canadian Northwest, but the mem
bers of his family are unable to To-
cate him, or give the libelant inform
alton concerning his present where
abouts and of his present where
abouts the libelant has no information
whatever.
Wherefore your libe,ant prays that
tlsa bond of matrimony between her
and the libelee be dissolved and bill
of divorce granted unto her; that the
custody of said child may be decreed
to the libelant during his minority
and your libelant further prays for
an order of notice by publication Of
the foregoing petition.
| Dated at st. Johnsbury, in the
County Of Caledonia, this 9th day OF
February, 1922.
JESSIE I. DONOVAN,
Iihelant