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Jessie and Albert’s Divorce Papers

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My Great Grandmother, Jessie Mae Tyler Green Harris, was married twice. First to Albert Green whom she divorced in 1913 and then to Frank Harris. According to the divorce papers her first husband abandoned her and my grandfather at some point between their marriage on May 5th, 1909 and their divorce on February 7, 1913.

In the CIRCUIT COURT, KANE COUNTY, February Term, 1913. Jessie Green vs Albert Green. IN CHANCERY.

At a term of the Circuit court of Kane County, For the February Term, A. D. 1913, held on the seventh day of the February of said Term. Present Hon. Mazzini Slusser, Judge, Charles T. McBriarty, Sheriff. Justus L. Johnson, Clerk.

JESSIE GREEN vs ALBERT GREEN | IN CHANCERY. No 32793.

This cause having come on to be heard upon the bill of complaint herein, and it appearing to the Court here that the bill of complaint filed in the Clerk’s office of this Court, on November 25th, A. D. 1912 together with an affidavit made by the complainant herein, showing that the said defendant was then a non resident of the State of Illinois, and that summons was duly issued on said day and returned, “Defendant not found in my county”, and it further appearing to the Court that due and lawful service has been had upon the defendant by publication in the Elgin Daily Courier, a regularly issued and secular newspaper, with general circulation throughout said Kane County, and that said newspaper has been published for many years to the filing of said bill of complaint herein and that the certificate of the publisher and Clerk’s certificate of mailing having also been duly issued and filed herein according the law, and the parties to this cause being now properly before this Court, and the said defendant having been three times called in open Court to plead, answer of demur to the Complainant’s bill of complaint herein, came not nor anyone for him and having herein made default and the court having ordered that the said bill of complaint and the matters and things therein stated and contained be taken as confessed, and the Court having heard the oral testimony of witnesses, sworn and examined in open Court and having heard the arguments of counsel and being fully advised in the premises, and on consideration thereof, DOTH FIND. That all the material facts alleged in the said bill of complaint are true, and that the defendant has willfully and wrongfully deserted and absented himself from the complainant without any reasonable cause whatever for a period of more than two years prior to the filing of said bill of complainant herein and the Court further finds that the defendant, Albert Green is a person wholly unfit to have the care, custody, control of education of the minor child of said parties, Walter T. Green, mentioned in said bill of complaint, and that said child is the only child born of said marriage and is now about the age of two and one-half years, and the Court finds that the complainant, Jessie Green, is a person wholly fit to have such care and custody of said minor child.

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED by the Court, that the marriage between the complainant and the defendant be dissolved and the same is hereby dissolved accordingly, and the parties are and each of them is freed from the obligations thereof.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED by the Court that the complainant have the care, custody and control and education of the said minor child, Walter T. Green, without any interference on the part of the defendant, Albert Green, until the further order of this Court.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the defendant pay the costs of this suit, and the sum of Fifty ($50.00) Dollars Solicitor’s fees to the complainant for her solicitor within thirty days from the date of this decree, and that the execution may issue therefor, and this Court reserves the consideration of alimony for a future order and decrees to be entered herein on a proper showing made at this or any other term hereafter by said complainant.

Enter — Mazzini Slusser, Judge

February 7, 1913

My grandfather’s elusive father

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I’ve known my maternal grandfather’s lineage from his mother’s side for a very long time. It made such a huge impact on me that I vowed to be married in the church that our ancestors built near Elgin and loved to tell people that the creek that flows on the West side of Elgin is named after the Tyler branch of my family.

I knew very little about my grandfather’s father, however except that he divorced his wife and was out of the picture early in my grandfather’s life. Apparently, he knew his mother’s second husband, Frank Harris, as a father.

Yesterday, however, I discovered more than I’d ever hoped about that great grandfather’s family.

Albert Green

His name was Albert Green and was the son of Swedish immigrants. His father, Emil Green married Amanda Johnson on March 19, 1887, in Cook County, Illinois. His occupation is listed as a carpenter. He was 22 and she was 24. Emil and Amanda had two other children besides Albert. Their first child, a girl named Hildur was born on November 19, 1888, and they lived at 6005 May Street in the Englewood part of Chicago when she was born, according to her birth certificate. Albert was their second child, born on February 25, 1891. Their third child, Harold, was born April 2, 1898. Emil died of Typhoid fever on June 17, 1899, and is buried at Oakwood Cemetery. Amanda died in Elgin on August 8, 1934, and is buried at Bluff City Cemetery in Elgin.

Harold, Hildur, Amanda, Albert

Albert married Jessie May Tyler on May 5th, 1909. My grandfather, Walter Tyler Green was born January 31, 1910. And according to the census of 1910, both Albert and Jessie lived with her parents (and brother and his wife) at the house on Highland Avenue (615 West) in Elgin.

Albert died on October 19, 1921, in South Elgin, Illinois. The family story is that he was struck by a train on the railroad tracks in South Elgin, but the death record does not tell the cause of death. He was a roofer. He is buried at Bluff City Cemetery.

Jessie married Frank Harris, a German who arrived in the United States in 1900, by the 1930 census because he is listed as being the son-in-law of Jessie’s father with whom he, Jessie and my grandfather lived.

I cannot find a record of Jessie’s or Frank’s death, but according to John McCornack, Jessie died in 1949 and Frank died in 1958. According to family legend Jessie was struck by a car while crossing the street and Frank hanged himself out of grief over Jessie’s death. However, 9 years is a long time to grieve and then commit suicide. Something doesn’t seem right.