Notes for Minnie Elkins: Minnie Elkins was first married to Joseph West. She was granted a divorce from him November 14, 1906 in Union Co. IL. on grounds of Abandonment. Minnie Elkins West was granted custody of their son John West who was born September 2, 1902. Minnie later remarried to John Pitts in 1906.
Obituary: Gazette-Democrat and the Anna talk. Published in Anna IL. (Union Co.) January 1967.
Minnie Elkins Pitts, daughter of Silas and Sarah(Thomas) Elkins, was born in Johnson Co. ILL., August 7, 1884 and passed away in the Union County Hospital January 16, 1967. On January 2, 1902, she was married to Joe West and to this marriage one son was born. In 1906 she was united in marriage to John Pitts, and to this Union seven children were born, one preceding her in death at infancy. Mrs. Pitts was a faithful member of the Pentecostal faith, attending church when her health permitted. She is survived by one son, John West of Anna, six daughters, Nova West, Mae Boyer, Daisy White and Evelyn Boomer, all of Anna, Violet Pitts of Mounds and Helen Fear of Jonesboro, 25 grandchildren, 47 great grandchildren, one brother, J.T. (James Thomas) Elkins of Anna, one sister, Flora Brimmer (Nicknamed Diece) of Mc Allister, Oklahoma, and by many nieces and nephews and other relatives and friends. Funeral services were held Thursday, January 19, in the Chapel of Norris and Son, at 2 o'clock. Rev. Marion Hileman and Rev. Charles Mayberry officiated. Interment was in the Casper Cemetery. Norris and Son were in charge of arrangements.
More About Minnie Elkins: Burial: Casper cemetery / Anna Il..
More About Minnie Elkins and Joseph West: Marriage: Abt. 1900
Marriage Notes for Minnie Elkins and Joseph West: Chancery record: At a term of the Circuit Court of the County of Union and of the State of Illinois at the Court House on the 14th., day of November 1906. Present the Honorable W.W. Duncan, Judge presiding. Minnie West VS Joseph West - in Chancery: Divorce
This cause having come to be heard upon the bill of complaint therein taken as confessed by the defendant, and the oral testimony of two witnesses sworn and examined in open court who testified that the defendant abandoned and willfully absented himself from the complainant without any just and reasonable cause for more than two years past, before the commencement of said suit, and still continues such desertion and willful absence and the court being fully advised in the premises and in consideration thereof find that all of the material facts charged in the said bill are true and that the defendant deserted and willfully absented himself from the complainant for more than two years immediately before the commencement of this suit. It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed by the court that the marriage between the complainant and defendant be dissolved and the same is hereby dissolved accordingly and the said parties and each of them is freed from the obligation thereof. It is therefore ordered adjudged and decreed by the court that the complainant have the care and custody and control of John West the issue of said marriage and the child of the said complainant and the defendant who was born on the second day of September A.D. 1902 without any interference on the part of the defendant until the further order of this court. It is further ordered that the complainant pay the cost of this suit. W.W. Duncan, Circuit Judge Presiding. Filed November 30, 1906. Henry C. Sifford, Clerk.
The following Notice of Publication was printed for 4 weeks in the Jonesboro Gazette. Published in Jonesboro IL. 1906. A copy was also sent to the defendant, Joseph West, who was residing in Charlotte, Dixon County Tennessee at the time.
State of Illinois, Union County ss: In the Circuit, November term, 1906. Minnie West Vs. Joseph West-In Chancery. No. 6439. Affidavit of non-residence of Joseph West, the above defendant, having been filed in the Clerks office of the Circuit Court of said County, notice is therefore hereby given to the said non-resident defendant that the complainant filed her bill of complaint in said court, on the chancery side thereof, on the 7th day of September, 1906, and that thereupon a summons issued out of said court, wherein said suit is now pending, returnable on the second Monday in the month of November next, as it is by law required. Now unless you the said non-resident defendant above names, Joseph West shall personally be and appear before said Circuit Court on the first day of the next term thereof, to be holden at Jonesboro in and for the said County, on the second Monday in November next, and plead, answer or demur to the said complainant's bill of complaint, the same and the matters and things therein charged and stated will be taken as confessed and a decree entered against you according to the prayer of said bill. Henry C. Sifford, Clerk. By. Fred Bacon, Deputy. Jonesboro IL., September 7, 1906. Monroe C. Crawford, Compl. Solicitor.
More About Minnie Elkins and John Pitts: Marriage: 1906
Children of Minnie Elkins and Joseph West are:
John West, b. September 02, 1902, Woodbury TN. (Cannon Co.), d. October 1987, Union Co. Il. (Anna).
Children of Minnie Elkins and John Pitts are:
+Violet Pearl Pitts, b. January 31, 1912, Featheston Oklahoma, d. February 23, 1986, Pulaski Co. Il..
Minnie Elkins (b. August 07, 1884, d. January 19, 1967)
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