Greene County, Tennessee Divorce Announcements CHANCERY COURT AT GREENVILLE. Margaret Linder vs. Mason T. Linder. At rules held in the Clerks office in Greeneville on the first Monday in December 1841, it appearing to the Clerk and Master, from the allegations in complainants bill, that the defendant Mason T. Linder is not an inhabitant of the State of Tennessee. It is therefore ordered that the said Mason T. Linder appear here at the next term of the Court to be held on the second Monday in May next, and answer plead or ____ to said bill, or the same will be taken as confessed against him and set down for hearing exparte. December 9, 1841 - Bill in substance charges, that about the 4th day of July last, complainant intermarried with a certain Mason T. Linder, that sometime before the marriage, said Linder came to the neighborhood where complainant resided a stranger, and held himself out as a Methodist Preacher - and also as a teacher - he preached on several occasions, and up to the time of his marriage with complainant - so artfully did he dissemble and conceal his true character, nothing in his conduct or demeanor, so far as came under her observation, or to her knowledge, seemed incompatible with his professions - that soon after the marriage he put off the mask and began to develope his real character, complainant was shocked to assertain that all his pretensions to Religion and decency were the grossest hypocrisy - that they had been put on for a time the more easily to deceive and impose on those unacquainted with his true character - that he was habitually profane and brutal in his temper and disposition. But a few days after the marriage he began to abuse and beat the two infant children of complainant, by a former marriage - and when on several occasions complainant has interfered to rescue them from his brutal and unprovoked chastisement, she has herself been beaten by him in a most cruel manner - his object seemed to be to render her miserable in every way that his junction could suggest, and to squander her property as speedily as possible & c. Bill prays that an Injunction may be granted restraining the defendant from medling with the property derived from the estate of her former husband, either by himself or any other person for him - that a divorce from bed and board may be declared to her, or such other relief as upon all the facts of the case, she may seem entitled to. Dec. 15, 1841 The Jonesborough Whig, (Jonesborough, TN) Wednesday, December 15, 1841; Issue 31; col C - transcribed by, Amanda Jowers STATE OF TENNESSEE. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF GREENE COUNTY. Margaret Osborn, Complainant vs. Nathan Osborn, Defendant. } Bill for divorce from the bonds of matrimony. Complainant states in her bill, that she was married to defendant three years in May last, that defendant lived with her a short time and then left her without assigning any cause, and charges that defendant has been maliciously absent for more than two years, and that she has not heard of him, since his departure - and praying to be divorced from the bonds of matrimony. The said Nathan Osborn is therefore notified to appear at the Circuit Court to be held for the County of Greene at the Court House in Greeneville on the second monday in February next, and answer said bill off complaint, or the same will be taken as confessed, and the cause set for hearing exparte. Tennessee Whig, (Jonesborough, TN) Thursday, January 23, 1840; Issue 36; col C - transcribed by, Amanda Jowers