Stewart v. Vandervort

Brannon, Judge :

On May 4, 1848, Asbury Vandervort and Rebecca Jane McClastey wore married in Monongalia county, and in 1856 removed to the then far west, to Iowa, there living together until 1860, when one morning before daybreak he arose from his bed, and abandoning his wife and only child, a daughter then about eight years of age, without intimation *525to eitlier of tliem of any intention to desert them, wont to Illinois, where lie remained, moving to several different points, until September, 1888, when he returned to Mon-ongalia'county, in this State. In all the twenty eight years _ from his…