Logan County Divorce


John T. and Nancy Sawyer HILL Divorce (File # 1295)

(The Divorce Decree)

151
John T Hill
Vs Bill in cty
Nancy Hill
Filed & Issued 24
Mar 1840
1295
   Divorce
              Bill Fee           1.20 ½
   Apl Court    .25
   July Decree                1.25 ½
                                     1.71
   Filing depo    .15
                                     2.86
   Tax paid

Hill    )  This day this cause came on to be heard on the reading of the Bill and the Deposition filed etc and it appearing 
to the
vs    )  satisfaction of the court that the proofs has been duly executed & the court now being fully advised in the premises
Hill    )  decrees & orders that the said John T. Hill be & he is hereby divorced from his said wife Nancy Hill, A vincalo
      Matrimonie.     

( John T. Hill’s Complaint )
( Page 1 )  To the honorable judge of the Logan circuit court in chancery sitting justly complaining showeth unto your honor
 your orator John T. Hill that on the     day of September 1833 he was legally married in this county to his present wife Nancy
 Hill formerly Nancy Sawyers, that they lived together as man & wife a little over one year they lived at the then residence of 
your orator in the county of Todd in this State that about the     day of the year 1834 or in January 1835 said Nancy voluntarily
 left his bed & board with the intention of abandonment up to this time and Still continues, he states that he gave no cause for 
such abandonment, he charges that said Nancy & himself shortly after she left him made an amicable arrangement in regard to the 
property he owned which was reduced to writing and recorded in the Todd county court clerks office a copy of which is herewith
 filed and made part hereof, by which written instrument your orator conveyed to said Nancy and delivered to her such a part of
 his property, as She and her friend were satisfied with in lieu of all dower in his estate & he knows of no dissatisfaction thereto. 
 He does not know whether his said wife has applied for ever obtained a divorce, he makes said Nancy Hill defendant hereto, she lives 
in this county, he prays the ( page 2 ) Commonwealth writ of subpoena against her, that she answer the allegations hereof on oath and 
at a final hearing hereof he prays a decree divorcing him from said Nancy and grant full and General relief as in duty bound etc                                            
  John T. Hill
Preston & Edwards (??)
Todd county KY sct
This day John T. Hill personally appeared before the undersigned an acting Justice of the peace for said county and made oath that the statements in the foregoing Bill are true so far as stated from his own information, and so far as stated from the information of others he believes them true  Given under my hand as Justice as aforesaid March 13th 1840  J.S. Solomon J.P.

( Deposition of Jesse E. Hill, John T. Hill’s son by his first wife )
The Deposition of Jesse E. Hill taken at the Clerks office in the town of Russellville Logan County Kentucky on the 13th July 1840 agreeably to the notice hereto annexed to be read as evidence in a suit in Chancery depending in the Logan circuit Court wherein John T. Hill is deft in a suit for divorce Depondent being of lawful age and & first duly sworn deposeth  & saith
That sometime in the year 1834 ( I think February ) Mrs Nancy Hill wife of my father John T. Hill left my fathers John T. Hills his house and the very early in the spring following she came back & took away her bed & clothes & has never been back since that I know of, & I have been there constantly ever since.  He was living in Todd County at that time.  There was no cause for her leaving him that I know of.                                                 Jesse E. Hill

Logan Count Sct )  The above Deposition of Jesse E. Hill was this day taken subscribed & sworn before me an acting Justice of of the Peace in & for Logan County for the purpose mentioned in the above caption given under my hand & seal this 13th day of July 1840                                                                                     J J Mackall (JPLC)
Justice fee $1.00

Also in this file is a Subpoena commanding Nancy Hill to appear at the Court House in Russellville, Logan Co., KY on Monday, 13 July 1840 and a Bond with one Eli Collins named as guarantor.

NOTE:  John T. Hill’s first wife, Elizabeth Ely, d ca 1832 after having 9 children.  John and Nancy Sawyer Hill m 12 Sep 1833 in Logan Co., KY and their only child, George Washington Hill, was b 14 Sep 1834.  Perhaps the thought of having more children was an idea that Nancy couldn’t handle.  At any rate, she never remarried and spent her life living with her son, G.W. Hill, and died sometime after the 1880 Logan County census was enumerated.  John T. Hill d ca 1853 in Montgomery Co., TN and, in his will, left George Washington Hill $1.00.