Letter from Heinrich August Bissegger, 30 May 1892
Logan Utah
President Wilford Woodruff,
Dear Brother,
N it is with pain that i rite
to you about the trouble that
i am in at the present. My Wife
Sarah Elisabeth Bissegger has
aplied to you for a divoerce, she
has also aplied to tha first Dist
rich court for a divorce, i will
tell you as near as i can about
the trouble that exist between
us, i was marriede in Salt Lake
City Juli first 1881 how ever
sents been Husband and Wife
soon after we was married
we did not agree veary well,
and we hav had a great deel
of trouble. i had to worke hard
i was very poor, my eyes also
failed so that i was hardli
able to see, wietch mad me som
what crouss and probable very
disagreable, i take the blame
to myselve that we did not
get along very well, in 1883
i was could to go on a Mission
to Swizerland and Germania
after i was ther but a very
short time i had my eyes
operatet shortley afterward i
was honerable realeast to go
home, weh had no home at this
time i went to work again
to try and get me a home.
aner [another] trouble seem to comence
again, it went on for a few
years, in tha 1888 my wife
aplied to the Bishop of the
Ward Providence for a divorce
the matter was investigatet
but the Bishop (Hanson) and
