____________________________________________________________________________ State of Arkansas, County of Pike, In the Pike Circuit Court, on the Chancery side thereof, in Vacation, June 17, 1850. Jane Lafayette vs. Joseph D. Lafayette Bill For Divorce. This day comes the complainant and files her bill of complaint against the said defendant for a divorce from the bonds of matrimony from the said defendant, and it appearing that the said defendant is a non-resident of the State of Arkansas it is therefore ordered that the said Joseph D. Lafayette appear on the second day of our next September term of our Pike circuit court, to be holden on the first Monday in September next, at the court-house in the town of Murfreesboro, in the county of Pike, and plead, answer or demur to said bill of complaint, otherwise this bill will be taken as confessed; and it is further ordered that this proceedings be published in the Washington Telegraph. W.H. Preston, Clerk. A true copy from the record. W.H. Preston, Clerk. ____________________________________________________________________________ Washington Telegraph, July 3, 1850, Volume 10, Number 26, page 3, column 5. ____________________________________________________________________________ HTML file and design by David Kelley, 1997. All rights reserved.