The information noted below was abstracted by Randi Richardson from an original, handwritten documents in Box 133, Monroe County Civil Ct. Rcds., Monroe County History Center, Bloomington, Indiana. In the August 1868 Term of the Monroe County Civil Court, Daniel Butcher, the plaintiff, sued his wife, Julia A. Butcher, the defendant, for divorce. He noted in his complaint that he had been a resident of Monroe County for many years and had married Julia on March 28, 1867, and afterward went with her to live with his mother. Daniel and Julia each had three children from a prior marriage. Daniel alleged in his complaint that, although he believe Julia was chaste prior to the marriage, that she was delivered of a fully developed child too soon after the marriage to be his child. Therefore, he asked that the judge grant him a divorce, and he had no interest in having custody of the child. Julia cross filed for divorced during the same term of court. In her complaint she noted that she had been a resident of Monroe County for more than one year. She said she lived with Daniel as a faithful wife until about the first day of June 1867 when he abandoned her for no good reason and failed to provide for her. When she attempted a reconciliation, he swore at her. She noted further that one child, Martin Luther was born to the marriage, and she asked for his custody of the child along with alimony. Daniel's mother, Conna Butcher, age 68, was deposed on August 14, 1868. She noted that she was a resident of Clear Creek Township, Monroe County, and was born in 1800. Her health was reportedly not good and she had only been "out of the house" twice in three years. She reported that Daniel and his children came to live with her at her house after the death of his first wife and later brought Julia into the house as well. She reported that she had never seen Daniel mistreat Julia. There is also mention of a woman named Eliza A. Goodin, variously spelled Goodwin in the same document, who was brought in to assist with the household duties. In Julia's cross examination of Conna, she asked if Conna remembered an occasion when Eliza went into the bedroom with Daniel when he was changing clothes and otherwise suggested a rather inappropriate relationship between Daniel and Eliza. Conna said she did not recall.