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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
STATE OF TEXAS.
OFFICE SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION,
Austin, Texas, August 4, 1869.

W.M. Colby Esq
Supt of Ed.
Little Rock, Ark.

Dear Sir, 

Will you be kind enough to obtain some information for me and send as soon as convenient: on the following case. A preacher of the M. E. Church South, named Abraham Lockett, residing at Arkadelphia, left his wife there and came to Texas and married again, about 1862. He claims that he had applied for Divorce in the District Court of Clark Co. but before the case was finished the Federal troops came and drove the Confederacy out.
Will you please obtain a copy of the Record in the case, and any information that can be got from any of the lawyers.  He pays Judge Stringer (I think that or Steele is the name) informed him that his case was in such a state of advancement that he had a right to marry.
He has connected himself with another