Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1885 — A Divorce Case. [ARTICLE]

A Divorce Case.

Minnie Keener was the daughter of Jacob Keener, one of the oldest settlers and best known men of Union township, and the man for whom Keener township was named. She married Darwin B. Brasket, Dec: 21st, 1879, from A-hich time until August 1884 she lived with him as his wife. Two children were born of the union, Dolph Guy, born in 1882 and Norah Blanch born in 1883, both still living. Within in a year of their marriage, as Mrs. Brasket states in her petition for a divorce, Brasket became very dissipated and a habitual drunkard. He neglected to provide for his wife and children, and also, at times abused and maltreated them in a shameful manner, as for instance, upon one occasion, while visiting a relative, he became angry at his wife and after choking and overpowering her, took their baby, then only a year old, out into the cold, and illtreated it in such a manner as to cause its life to be dispaired of and to render it a cripple for life. The evil disposed brute has squandered all his own property in dissipation, and many hundred dollars belonging to his wife. After years of vain attempts to reform her erring husband Mrs. Brasket applied for a decree of divorce at the present term of court, and the same was granted by Judge Ward, on Tuesday last. The custody of the children is given to the mother. \

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