Harriet A. Gould Stocking v Sidney F. Stocking (Journal 8 p204 - 12 Mar 1874; Roll 26 case number 15)
By Pamela Pattison Lash (updated 19 September 2021)
The couple was married in Toledo, Lucas Co, OH on 5 June 1870. Harriet stated that on 10 June 1870 he deserted her and was willfully absent from that time to the present. He lived on Colburn Street in Toledo, where his mother kept house for him. He was drunk when he married and later said he did not like her. Harriet had lived in Bryan for the past two years. She brought the following witnesses from Lucas Co to substantiate her claims: Rebecca Prouty and Francis S. Prouty, Sidney's business partner in a grocery. The divorce was granted.
From the Cincinnati Commercial (Cincinnati, OH), 20 January 1871, p4, I found this story:
Toledo has a social sensation. One day in June last a grocery merchant named Sidney F Stocking, while in a mellow condition, proposed instant marriage to Miss Hattie A Gould, daughter of the widow with whom he boarded. Miss Harriet thought a minute, said yes, or words to that effect, attired herself in bridal garments, stepped into a hack with her stormer, interviewed Rev Mr Abbott, and reposed that night at the Oliver House as Mrs Stocking. In the course of five days the bridegroom sobered up, told his bride that he loved her not, and compelled her to return to her relatives. The repudiated wife is now suing for divorce and alimony. Mr Stocking claims that at the time he popped he was intoxicated by alcoholic and narcotic stimulants, and that he was in a drunken condition from Monday until Friday.
Sidney Fernando Stocking was the son of Sidney Stocking and Louisa Tennant. He was born c1834 in OH. He was enumerated with his mother, Louisa, in the 1850 Perry Twp, Stark Co, OH federal census as Sidney 17 OH. Harriet A Gould was the daughter of Harvey Gould and Lucy Anderson; she was born on 3 February 1849 in Auburn, Cayuga Co, NY.
On 10 June 1874 Hattie A. Gould married John B. Metsker in Williams Co, OH; John had married Lucinda Hudkins on 1 May 1870 in Williams Co, OH. On 19 Oct 1879 Hattie A. Metsker married John Womelsdorff in Defiance Co, OH, however the family lived in Toledo, where she died on 23 October 1925 and was buried in the Forest Cemetery.
According to the 1880 Arkansas River, Fremont Co, CO federal census p521 the Prouty family resided as FS and Rebecca Prouty with their children and lodger, Sydney Stocking, 48 NY laborer. In the city directories for Denver, Colorado, between 1893-1895 Sidney was listed as an employment agent. He died there on 19 May 1896 and was buried in the Mansfield Cemetery, Mansfield, Richland Co, OH.
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