| Early Divorce Records - Orange Co., FL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NAMES | DIVORCE DATE | MARRIAGE DATE | WIFE'S MAIDEN NAME | NOTES |
| Solomon R. & Elizabeth Heidt | 06/27/1873 | He returned from serving in the Confederate Army to find she had given birth to a child that was not his. So, he left her in Georgia and came to Florida. Note, he married secondly, on 01-07-1874, to Elizabeth Powell. | ||
| Charlotte & Thaddeus C. Gruber | 11/23/1874 | They came to Florida from Iowa. He left her to become a traveling physician, but never returned. | ||
| Carrie & W. B. Randolph | 02/19/1878 | 01/07/1875 | Eppes | They were married in Orange County. She had a prolonged conflict with her mother-in-law, but he refused to intervene. In frustration, she bit him. He then took her to the home of her father and left her there. |
| William J. & Alice Hill | 12/20/1878 | 1867 | They were married in England. He left her there to come to America, and subsequently discovered that she had remarried in 1876 to a Mr. Samuel Ellsen, claiming to be a widow. She and Mr. Ellsen had a son in 1877. | |
| Mary & James Blitch | 11/22/1879 | 02/17/1874 | Summerlin | They were married in Orange County. She was a daughter of wealthy cattleman Jacob Summerlin. Mr. Blitch accused her of adultery, but the court granted their divorce on grounds of the husband's extreme cruelty. No details given. |
| Thomas B. & Martha Yates | 09/27/1880 | 10/25/1879 | Fountain | They were married in Orange County. He claimed that she was a prostitute, and supposedly caught her with a customer by the name of Richard Brantley. Mr. Brantley denied this assertion, but Mr. Harvey J. Middlebrooks testifed that he had frequently seen Mrs. Yates working at a house of ill repute. |
| S. P. & Katie Hatch | 01/14/1881 | She couldn't stand frontier life, and returned to her home state of Maine. | ||
| Mary & Jerry Burn | 06/06/1881 | He beat her and failed to provide support for their children. Most heinous, he refused to summon a doctor which resulted in the death of one of the children. | ||
| E. E. & Anne Belle Morrison | 06/21/1881 | 08/07/1879 | Laws | They were married in Orange County. She abandoned him and their only child. He was granted sole custody. |
| Martha & Henderson Washington | 10/03/1881 | He had syphillis. | ||
| Mary L. & George Amos | 12/17/1881 | 11/19/1878 | Hart | They were married in Orange County. He was an alcoholic and beat her when drunk, resulting in at least two miscarriages. |
| Samuel H. & Elizabeth Luckey | 07/02/1883 | 12/11/1872 | Summerall | They were married in Orange County. They operated the Luckey Hotel. She had an extramarital affair with the hotel's bartender Thomas Palmer, and returned to her native Georgia. Mr. Luckey was granted sole custody of their five children. He subsequently remarried, 12/21/1886, to Lydia E. Vredenburg. |
| Needham & Mary Stokes | 10/12/1883 | 09/15/1881 | Fewax | They were married in Orange County. He accused her of adultery, and produced a witness by the name of Mr. John Owens. Mr. Owens admitted that he and several other men had extramarital affairs with Mrs. Stokes. Mr. Stokes subsequently remarried 12/16/1885 to Josephine Jernigan. |
| Emma & William Rudisil | 11/23/1885 | 10/24/1882 | They were married in Orange County. Divorce granted due to his impotence. | |