Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1911 — COLORED WOMAN ASKS DIVORCE FROM HUSBAND. [ARTICLE]

COLORED WOMAN ASKS DIVORCE FROM HUSBAND.

Woman Living In Rensselaer Wants Separation from Indianapolis Man She Married Last Year. Probably-the first time a colored woman ever brought action for divorce in Jasper county was when Ella Jackson filed a complaint for divorce from her husband. James Jackson, through her attorney, S./C. Irwin. The complaint was just filed. The plaintiff has been working as a domestic in Rensselaer. She alleges in the complaint that they were married April 26, 1910, and lived together until Feb. 10, 1911, when he ordered her to leave their home and told her that he would make-no further provision for her support. She alleges that during the time they lived together he was guilty of cruel and inhuman treatment and that without provocation he committed a violent assault upon her and beat and struck her. She charges that he habitually cursed her and abused her and called her vile, profane, insulting and approbious names and on several occasions threatened to kill her. She asks for a divorce and the restoration of her maiden name, Ella Evans.