FAMILY OF DEBORAH AND EDWARD JOHNSON, SR.



According to Goodspeed's history of Arkansas, Edward Johnson and his family 

moved to Arkansas about 1820.  The following information is to help 

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Divorce of Eliza M. Stout

The original document in the Hempstead Co. Courthouse; Chancery Record B, 

1843-55.  According to R. C. Johnson's family Bible record, Sinkler Johnson 

married Eliza Wood.  I believe this was Eliza Stout's maiden name.  According 

to the Arkansas marriage records found on Ancestry.com,  Benjamin F. Stout 

married Margaret Stout on 5-27-1847 in Washington Co., Ark.  I do not know if 

this is Eliza's first husband.)





May Term A D 1844



Eliza Stout Complainant

For and On a petition for Divorce

Benjamin Stout  Defendant



And now at this day came the said complainant by B. F. Hempstead her 

Solicitor, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that publication 

of of notice in this cause to said defendant Benjamin Stout has been duly 

made, and the said defendant being called came such, but made default: It is 

then by consideration by the Court that the complainants said Rite of 

Complaint be taken as confessed, and it is advised and decreed that the Bonds 

of Matrimony not for subsisting between Eliza Stout and Benjamin Stout be and 

the same an hereby put aside, annuled, vacates and hilo(?) for naught and 

that said Eliza Stout be and she hereby is declared to be divorced from the 

Bonds of Matrimony ? ? between her and said Benjamin Stout, and it further 

appearing to the satisfaction of the court that there is one child named     

? of the said marriage between said Elizabeth Stout and Benjamin Stout, it is 

further decreed by the court that the care and custody of said child is 

hereby given and confered to said Eliza, and it is further considered that 

said complainant have and recover of said defendant her Cents(?) in and about 

this snit(?) Suspended and that she have (?) Execution therefor.