Fanny Crafton vs. William Chester Crafton, Divorce Petition, Monroe County Civil Court Records, Box 981, Research Library, Monroe County History Center, Bloomington, Indiana. NOTE: The item below is the divorce petition and it is most likely NOT the only item in this file related to the divorce. On April 5, 1917, according to information from a Monroe County (IN) marriage record index, William C. Crafton, the son of David and Emma (Mayfield) Crafton, married Fannie (sic) L. Smile, the daughter of James and Mary F. (Fender) Cooter. A divorce was granted to Fanny on April 27, 1921. Fanny Crafton vs. William Chester Crafton, February 1921 Plaintiff complains of the defendant and says that she is now and has been for the last 22 years past been a bona fide resident of the state of Indiana. That she is now and has for the last past two years been a bona fide resident of the City of Bloomington, County of Monroe, State of Indiana. Plaintiff further says that she and the defendant were duly married on the 5th day of April, 1917, and lived together as husband and wife until the 1st day of September, 1917, when this plaintiff was abandoned by the defendant and since said first day of September, 1917, plaintiff and defendant have not lived nor cohabited together as husband and wife. Plaintiff says that on the first day of September, 1917, that the defendant, William Chester Crafton, abandoned this plaintiff without cause and against the consent of this plaintiff and has refused to live with this plaintiff but abandoned her on said date with the intention of causing a palpable separation. Plaintiff further says that the defendant since the first day of September, 1917, has wholly failed to provide food, clothing, a house to live in, or any of the necessities of life for this plaintiff. Plaintiff says by this union there has been born one child, Wilferd (consider Wilfred a spelling variant) Martin Crafton, age three years, and plaintiff says that she is a fit person to have the care, custody and control of said child, and the defendant is not a fit person to have the care, custody and control of said child. Wherefore plaintiff demands that the bonds of matrimony heretofore existing be forever dissolved, that she be granted a divorce and the care, custody and control of said child for all other and proper relief. Attorney for Plaintiff