File Name = shelby.htmSTATE OF ALABAMA PERRY COUNTY LEANNA WALKER | BILL FOR DIVORCE VS | IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF PERRY COUNTY SAMUAL WALKER | IN THE STATE AFORESAID
I HANANIAH G. DAVIS AGREEABLY TO MAKE COMMISSION TO ME DIRECTED HAVE CAUSED FANCIS RALSTON AND SHELBY D. WALKER TO COME BEFORE ME AT THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT IN MARION PERRY COUNTY IN THE STATE OF AFORESAID ON THE FIRST DAY OF MAY 1833 AND AFTER SEVERALLY SWEARING THEM HAS THE HOLY EVANGELIST TO MAKE TRUE ANSWERS TO THE INTERROGATORIES AND CROSS INTERROGATORIES FILES IN SAID CAUSE AND ACCOMPANYING SAID COMMISSION THEY HAVE SEPARETLY ANSWERED AND MAKE THEIR ANSWERS AS FOLLOWS, TO WIT, SHELBY D. WALKER TO THE FIRST INTERAGORATORY ANSWERS AND SAYS: I DO:
2ND TO THE BEST OF MY RECOLLECTION THEY WERE MARRIED SOMETIME IN THE SUMMMER ABOUT 12 OR 13 YEARS AGO AND LIVED TOGETHER ABOUT SIX OR SEVEN YEARS
2RD DEFT. HAD NINE CHILDREN BY HIS FIRST WIFE EIGHT OF WHICH ARE NOW LIVING AND ARE ALL OF AGE BUT TWO
4TH DEFT. HAD FOUR CHILDREN BY COMPLAINTANT THE OLDEST NOW ABOUT 11 OR 12
5TH COMPLAINTANT HAD SIX CHILDREN BY HER FIRST HUSBAND AT THE TIME OF HER MARRIAGE WITH THE DEFT., THE OLDEST WAS I SUPPOSE ABOUT 14 OR 15
6TH COMPLAINTANT HAD FOUR CHILDREN BY DEFT. AFTER THEIR (INTER) MARRIAGE THE OLDEST IS NOW BETWEEN 11 AND 12
7TH DEFT. HAS HAD THE CHILDREN WHO WERE THE ISSUE OF THE MARRIAGE OF COM- MPLAINTANT AND DEFT. SINCE THEY SEPARATED AND TAKES CARE OF AND SUPPORTS THEM
8TH I DID NOT
9TH NONE BUT RATHER SPENT MORE THAN MADE
10TH THEY WERE MAINTAINED EDUCATED ? BY DEFT.
11TH COMPLAINTANT LEFT HOUSE WHILST DEFT. WAS ABSENT. I DID NOT HERE THE COMPLAINANT STATE ANY CAUSE
12TH THERE ARE FIVE CHILDREN OF DEFT,S BY HIS FIRST WIFE AND FOUR BY HIS LAST WIFE WHO ARE NOW LIVING WITH AND SUPPORTED BY DEFT.
13TH WHEN ANY OF COMPLAINANTS FIRST CHILDREN WOULD COMMIT A FAULT SHE WOULD FREQUENTLY TELL DEFT. TO CORRECT THE CHILDREN AND WHEN HE WOULD DO IT SHE WOULD THEN ABUSE HIM FOR IT.
14TH DEFT. TREATED COMPLAINANT FIRST CHILDREN IN ALL RESPECTS AS WELL AS HE DID HIS OWN
15TH DEFT. CORRECTED ON OF COMPLAINTANTS CHILDREN FOR DISOBEDIENCE AND COMPLAINTANT THEN DREW A AXE UPON HIM. DEFT. AND SAID SHE WOULD SPLIT OUT HIS BRAINS
16TH I FREQUENTLY HEARD COMPLAINTANT THREATEN TO LEAVE DEFT. SEVERAL YEARS BEFORE SHE LEFT HIM
17TH COMPLAINANT HAD A GRAY MARE WORTH ABOUT $25 OR $30 DOLLARS ALSO THREE COWS AND A YEARLING WORTH ABOUT $15, ALSO ONE BED AND TABLE AND SKILLET. DEFT. DISPOSED OF SOME OF THE PROPERTY BY COMPLAINTANTS CONSENT, ONE COW DIED THE BALANCE WAS CHIEFLY DISPOSED OF BY COMPLAINTANT A ?? TO THE USE OF THE FAMILY JOINTLY BUT THE MOST OF IT TO HER AND HIS FIRST CHILDREN
19TH COMPLAINTANT APPEARS TO BE A VERY STOUT WOMAN OF HER AGE AND ABLE TO DO GOOD LABOUR EVERY DAY
18TH TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE THE DEFT. IS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 60 AND 70 YEARS OF AGE HAS HAD ONE OF HIS ARMS BROKEN AND THE LADERS OF THE SAME ARE CUT WHICH DISABLED HIM FROM ORDINARY LABOR ALSO ONE OF HIS KNEES VERY BADLY CUT WITH AN AXE WHICH INFERMITIES I THINK RENDERS HIM EN- TIRELY UNALBE TO MAKE OR SUPPORT BY LABOR
20TH I SAW THE COMPLAINTANT STRIKE DEFT. WITH A CHAIR AT ONE TIME WHEN DEFT. WAS TALKING IN PERFECT GOOD HUMOR WITH COMPLAINANT, THE DEFT. WAS STANDING UP IN THE FLOOR AT THE TIME OR IN THE ACT OF WALKING INTO ANOTHER ROOM
21ST AT THE TIME WHEN COMPL. STRUCK DEFT WITH A CHAIR HE TOOK IT FROM HER SHE THEN ADVANCED TWARDS TOOK HIM BY THE COLLAR AND ENDEAVORED TO BITE HIM. DEFT THEN CAUGHT HER BY THE HAIR HELD HER OFF AND STRUCK HER WHICH IS THE ONLY TIME I EVER SAW HIM STRIKE HER I LIVED IN THE SAME HOUSE DURING THE WHOLE TIME THEY LIVED TOGETHER
22ND COMPLAINTANT ALWAYS WENT AND CAME AT DISCRESSION AND DONE AND ACTED JUST AS SHE PLEASED AS FAR AS SHE COULD
S.D. WALKER I HANANIAH G.DAVIS DO CERTIFY THAT THE FOREGOING ANSWERS MADE TO THE INTERROGATORIES ACCOMPANYING SAID COMISSION TO ME DIRECTED BY THE WITTNESSES FRANCES RALSON AND SHELBY WALKER SEPARETLY BEING FIRST DULY SWORN TO MAKE TRUE ANSWERS WERE TAKEN BY ME AT THE TIME AND PLACE ABOVE SPECIFIED IN THE ? AND THAT SAID WITTINESSES AFTER THE ANSWERS WERE REDUCED TO WRITING AND READ TO THEM SIGNED AND SUBSCRIBED THEIR NAMES ? AND THAT THE ANSWERS ARE IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE WITTNISSES GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL THIS FIRST DAY OF MAY 1833 H. G. DAVIS