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Sarah Lovina Smith Marriner

Birth
Champaign County, Illinois, USA
Death
9 Mar 1921 (aged 69)
Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section FG, Lot 7
Memorial ID
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Daughter of Tillman and Sarah (Johnson) Smith, married 16 Mar 1881, Ford Co. Illinois, James Henry Marriner.

Sarah divorced James and married 2 Mar 1894, McLean County, Illinois, Thomas Gill Green, born May 1841, Newport, Rhode Island, son of William C. and Jane (Gaddis) Green who are buried in Logan County, Illinois.

According to these newspaper items, Sarah filed for divorce in 1896 from Thomas Green. They must have reconciled because she filed again in 1900:

According to the Civil War Pension application of Thomas, Sarah left home on 14 Sept 1897.

The "Sunday Eye" published in Bloomington, IL 2 Aug 1896, says that Sarah had brought suit for divorce against her husband Thomas G. Green, charging cruelty.

The Pantagraph
Bloomington, Illinois
Tues., March 20, 1900
Page 7
Sarah L. Green has filed a bill for divorce from Thomas G. Green on the ground of desertion. They were married March 2, 1894, and have an adopted child of whom the wife asks the custody.
Source: newspapers.com

Sarah eventually went back to James Marriner who had married Mahala Amanda (Davis) Layman and divorced her also.

Sarah and James were the parents of:
Tillman Scott Marriner, Joshua Ethan Marriner, and James Henry Marriner, Jr., Mary Green, born ca May 1892/94, McLean County, Illinois. Mary's married name was Mary Adams.
Daughter of Tillman and Sarah (Johnson) Smith, married 16 Mar 1881, Ford Co. Illinois, James Henry Marriner.

Sarah divorced James and married 2 Mar 1894, McLean County, Illinois, Thomas Gill Green, born May 1841, Newport, Rhode Island, son of William C. and Jane (Gaddis) Green who are buried in Logan County, Illinois.

According to these newspaper items, Sarah filed for divorce in 1896 from Thomas Green. They must have reconciled because she filed again in 1900:

According to the Civil War Pension application of Thomas, Sarah left home on 14 Sept 1897.

The "Sunday Eye" published in Bloomington, IL 2 Aug 1896, says that Sarah had brought suit for divorce against her husband Thomas G. Green, charging cruelty.

The Pantagraph
Bloomington, Illinois
Tues., March 20, 1900
Page 7
Sarah L. Green has filed a bill for divorce from Thomas G. Green on the ground of desertion. They were married March 2, 1894, and have an adopted child of whom the wife asks the custody.
Source: newspapers.com

Sarah eventually went back to James Marriner who had married Mahala Amanda (Davis) Layman and divorced her also.

Sarah and James were the parents of:
Tillman Scott Marriner, Joshua Ethan Marriner, and James Henry Marriner, Jr., Mary Green, born ca May 1892/94, McLean County, Illinois. Mary's married name was Mary Adams.


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