"Tuesday, December 30, 1834" "Mr. Stuart, from the committee on Petitions, to which was referred the petition of Mary C. Shadowen, praying for a divorce & c.; Reported adverse to the prayer of said petitoner Which was concurred in." (Source: From the records of Jeter Grimsley, dec'd: "JOURNAL of the House of Representatives of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois at their first session, begun and held in the Town of Vandalia," December 1, 1834, Vandalia, Illinois, by J. Y. Sawyer, Public Printer, 1835, p. 181) [Who was the husband of this Mary C. Shadowen who appears to unsuccessfully to have petitioned for a divorce? ASH]