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 divorce, 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 however
sents been Husband and Wife
soon after we was married
we did not agree very well,
and we hav had a great dael
of trouble. i had to worke hard
2
i was very poor, my eyes also
failed so that i was hartli
able to see, witch mad me som
what croos and probable very
disagreable, i take tha 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
operated shortly afterward i
was honerable realeast to go
home, not had me home at this
time i went to work again
to try and get me a home.
aner trouble seems 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 investigahat
but tha Bishop (Hanson) and