Marshall County, West Virginia Marriages, 1835-1875
Title | Marshall County, West Virginia Marriages, 1835-1875 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Marriage licenses |
ISBN |
Marshall County, WV, Marriages
Title | Marshall County, WV, Marriages PDF eBook |
Author | Wes Cochran |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Marriage licenses |
ISBN |
Marshall County, West Virginia, Marriages, 1835-1874
Title | Marshall County, West Virginia, Marriages, 1835-1874 PDF eBook |
Author | Wes Cochran |
Publisher | |
Pages | 59 |
Release | 200? |
Genre | Marriage licenses |
ISBN |
Marshall County, West Virginia Marriages, 1835-1889
Title | Marshall County, West Virginia Marriages, 1835-1889 PDF eBook |
Author | Wes Cochran |
Publisher | |
Pages | 138 |
Release | 1984* |
Genre | Marriage records |
ISBN |
Marshall County, West Virginia, Marriages
Title | Marshall County, West Virginia, Marriages PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Marriage licenses |
ISBN |
Marshall County Marriages, 1836-1900
Title | Marshall County Marriages, 1836-1900 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 477 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Marriage records |
ISBN |
Heartsick and Astonished
Title | Heartsick and Astonished PDF eBook |
Author | Allison Dorothy Fredette |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 399 |
Release | 2023-05-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0820364290 |
Heartsick and Astonished features twenty-seven divorce cases from mid-nineteenth century America. More than dry legal documents, these cases provide a captivating window into marital life—and strife—in the border South during the tumultuous years before, during, and after the Civil War. Allison Dorothy Fredette has brought these primary documents to light, revealing the inner thoughts, legal hardships, and day-to-day struggles of these average citizens. In Wheeling, West Virginia, the seat of Ohio County, courtrooms bore witness to men and women from various ethnic, racial, and class backgrounds who shared shockingly intimate details of their lives and relationships. Some tried desperately to defend their masculinity or femininity; others hoped to restore their reputations to the legal system and to their community. In an era of uncertainty—when the country was torn in two, when the Wheeling community became the capital of a new state, and when activists across the country began to push for women’s rights in the household and family—the divorce cases of ordinary couples reveal changing attitudes toward marriage, gender, and legal separation in a booming border city perched on the edge of the South.