The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Illinois, 23 Jan 1885, p4
"A Sad Divorce Suit
—Sad it is when man and wife, who have sailed together for a quarter century over the varying oceans of life, from the isles of youth until almost to peaceful harbors of shadow land find their bark wrecked upon the breakers of discord. Mrs. Martha E. Sackett, of Arrowsmith, has filed a bill for divorce against her husband, Sabina Sackett. In the declaration she relates a story that, if true, is a pitiful commentary upon life, love and matrimony. She says she married him in 1855; both were young and poor, and both worked together and accumulated land and property, until now there lies in his name 240 acres of fine land, valued at $15,000 or more; that in 1884 she was compelled to yield to his repeated cruelty, abuse, neglect, vilification and avarice and leave him, after having been a faithful wife and bearing him six children; that she is now dependent upon her daughter for support, her only asset being an investment of $1,000, which her father gave her, and which is placed in unproductive city lots. Mrs. Sackett says that her husband worked her to death, refused to obtain medical treatment for her when ill, refused to support her, and added vile insult to injury by calling her the most insulting of names implying her lack of wifely virtue. She asks for a divorce and an equitable division of the property which she helped to accumulate."
[Transcribed by Chris Sackett from image researched by Erin Dennis]
The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Illinois, 19 Mar 1885, page 3
"MCCLEAN CIRCUIT COURT
-Yesterday's proceedings-
A decree of divorce was granted to Martha E. Sackett, from her husband, Sabina Sackett."
[Transcribed from Newspapers.com by Ted Smith]