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Stephen and Mary Cole - Divorce
Posted by: Beth Champion Little (ID *****2737) Date: April 09, 2009 at 04:45:02
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PAR Number 21285634
Location: Richmond County, North Carolina; Year: 1856

Abstract: Claiming to have conducted herself as a "dutiful & obedient wife," Mary Cole relates that shortly after her marriage her husband commenced beating and whipping her in a "most cruel barbarous, unmerciful & savage manner." He stomped on her head until blood came out of her mouth and nose, beat her with heavy shoes, sticks, "or anything else," and tried to poison her or force "his negroes & others to do so." Stephen Cole is a man of substantial means, Mary asserts, having no debts and owning a large plantation and forty slaves. She asks for a divorce and alimony.

http://library.uncg.edu/slavery/results.aspx?s=3&sid=210&lRec=20379507&lastset=25&perpag=25

That is all the Cole information that I have.


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