[muawiyah]

BTW, whatever court proceedings there might have been, Indiana didn't have a law allowing divorce in court until the 1900s. You could still get a divorce but it had to be by an act passed by the legislature!

In Kentucky you had to be able to outshoot your spouse.

[Capriole]

I'll tell you, some of these court records from 1862 are hilarious. They sound exactly like an episode of Jerry Springer. "You be a ho, bitch!" "You skank, you tellin' me I a ho? You a ho! You leave my babydaddy alone, skank!" etc. etc.