The following Dearborn County, Indiana court notices were published in Indiana newspapers in 1817. Dearborn County suffered a courthouse fire on 6 March 1826 that destroyed all records. See Dearborn County Reconstructed Records for more details.

Madison Indiana Republican – 21 June 1817 – Page 3, Column 4

Dearborn circuit court, May term 1817.
Eleanor, alias Honner Cooper, versus William Cooper} On a Bill for a Divorce, now filed:

This day came the complainant aforesaid by her attorney and filed her bill praying a divorce from her husband William Cooper, the defendant aforesaid; and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the defendant aforesaid is not a resident of this state: It is therefore ordered that notice of the pendency of the said bill, be published for eight weeks successively, in the Indiana Republican, printed at Madison: and that unless the said defendant appear at, or before the next term of this court, and answer to the bill aforesaid; the said cause will then be heard in his absence.

A true copy from the Record.
Attest, JAMES DILL, Clk.