Divorcing Christian Scientist Husband, No Time For Child

Columbia City, Indiana, 1906

ASKS DIVORCE FROM CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST

COLUMBIA CITY, Ind., Aug 13 — Mrs. Ida Creager, residing near Collamer through her attorney, F. B. Moe, of South Whitley, Monday filed suit in the Whitley circuit court for divorce from her husband, Joseph Creager, alleging that he is a Christian Scientist and wholly failed to support her and their twelve-year-old daughter for more than two years past. Her complaint avers that since they removed from this county to Elkhart three years ago she has been compelled to work out in order to secure the means to support herself and child, while her husband refused to labor, stating that he was a Christian Scientist and had no time to devote to his family as he preferred to be alone and without wife and child that he might read and meditate along the line of his spiritual welfare. When she fell ill last fall he brought her to the home of her mother, Mrs. Sisk near Collamer, where she has since made her home. She asks an absolute divorce and custody of the child and $100 of alimony.

--The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, Fort Wayne, Indiana, August 14, 1906, page 6.