(no obit found)
First husband was Thomas Jesse McClure, married 8 July 1883 in Fulton county.
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Printed in The Rochester Sentinel on
Wednesday, September 15, 1886
BIOG - In the divorce case of McCLURE vs McCLURE, wherein Mrs. Clara McCLURE asked the court to grant her a divorce from her husband and the custody of her two year old baby. His Honor decided in favor of the plaintiff on the condition that the defendant be allowed to visit his child, and that Mrs. Clara's father, Doc. JOHNSON, give an obligation of $500 to care properly for the child, which he did.
It will be remembered that Jesse McCLURE, the defendant, had considerable newspaper notoriety last March for taking his baby from its mother while her father was away, and has since kept it near Logansport. Much conflicting evidence was introduced as to McClure's violent character and abuse of his wife, but the fact of his having no home, except where he worked, to keep the child, seemed to impress the court with the idea that the child would be best cared for by the mother, who could give more attention to its proper training, and he so decided. Both parties are from respectable families, but the general drift of the evidence seemed to substantiate the charge in the complaint that the defendant was very irritable at times and could not control his wrath in such a manner as a dutiful father and husband shoud.
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First husband was Thomas Jesse McClure, married 8 July 1883 in Fulton county.
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Printed in The Rochester Sentinel on
Wednesday, September 15, 1886
BIOG - In the divorce case of McCLURE vs McCLURE, wherein Mrs. Clara McCLURE asked the court to grant her a divorce from her husband and the custody of her two year old baby. His Honor decided in favor of the plaintiff on the condition that the defendant be allowed to visit his child, and that Mrs. Clara's father, Doc. JOHNSON, give an obligation of $500 to care properly for the child, which he did.
It will be remembered that Jesse McCLURE, the defendant, had considerable newspaper notoriety last March for taking his baby from its mother while her father was away, and has since kept it near Logansport. Much conflicting evidence was introduced as to McClure's violent character and abuse of his wife, but the fact of his having no home, except where he worked, to keep the child, seemed to impress the court with the idea that the child would be best cared for by the mother, who could give more attention to its proper training, and he so decided. Both parties are from respectable families, but the general drift of the evidence seemed to substantiate the charge in the complaint that the defendant was very irritable at times and could not control his wrath in such a manner as a dutiful father and husband shoud.
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(no obit found)
First husband was Thomas Jesse McClure, married 8 July 1883 in Fulton county.
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Printed in The Rochester Sentinel on
Wednesday, September 15, 1886
BIOG - In the divorce case of McCLURE vs McCLURE, wherein Mrs. Clara McCLURE asked the court to grant her a divorce from her husband and the custody of her two year old baby. His Honor decided in favor of the plaintiff on the condition that the defendant be allowed to visit his child, and that Mrs. Clara's father, Doc. JOHNSON, give an obligation of $500 to care properly for the child, which he did.
It will be remembered that Jesse McCLURE, the defendant, had considerable newspaper notoriety last March for taking his baby from its mother while her father was away, and has since kept it near Logansport. Much conflicting evidence was introduced as to McClure's violent character and abuse of his wife, but the fact of his having no home, except where he worked, to keep the child, seemed to impress the court with the idea that the child would be best cared for by the mother, who could give more attention to its proper training, and he so decided. Both parties are from respectable families, but the general drift of the evidence seemed to substantiate the charge in the complaint that the defendant was very irritable at times and could not control his wrath in such a manner as a dutiful father and husband shoud.
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First husband was Thomas Jesse McClure, married 8 July 1883 in Fulton county.
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Printed in The Rochester Sentinel on
Wednesday, September 15, 1886
BIOG - In the divorce case of McCLURE vs McCLURE, wherein Mrs. Clara McCLURE asked the court to grant her a divorce from her husband and the custody of her two year old baby. His Honor decided in favor of the plaintiff on the condition that the defendant be allowed to visit his child, and that Mrs. Clara's father, Doc. JOHNSON, give an obligation of $500 to care properly for the child, which he did.
It will be remembered that Jesse McCLURE, the defendant, had considerable newspaper notoriety last March for taking his baby from its mother while her father was away, and has since kept it near Logansport. Much conflicting evidence was introduced as to McClure's violent character and abuse of his wife, but the fact of his having no home, except where he worked, to keep the child, seemed to impress the court with the idea that the child would be best cared for by the mother, who could give more attention to its proper training, and he so decided. Both parties are from respectable families, but the general drift of the evidence seemed to substantiate the charge in the complaint that the defendant was very irritable at times and could not control his wrath in such a manner as a dutiful father and husband shoud.
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