A public notice appears in The Summerville Gazette in 1878, concerning "the revolting offense committed by Mr. D. C. Sutton, a citizen of this place, involving the ruin of his sister-in-law..." The piece asks for patience, sympathy, and prayers for his wife ("a lady of refinement and culture") and his innocent children.
There are no details as to the ruin of his sister-in-law. It might have involved his bail-jumping, rather than anything else, but that is just my speculation. The sympathy for his wife and family has to do with a bigamy case.
D. C. Sutton was a prominent citizen of Walker County Georgia, with a wife, Drucilla, and a number of children, the eldest born about 1858. In 1878, a woman in Atlanta accused him of bigamy. He had gone by the name of A.D. Sutton. Under that name, he married Georgia Cornelia "Nina" Young in Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, in 1875, and moved her to Chattanooga, Tennessee, later deserting her. She received word that he had been murdered at Sand Mountain, Alabama, but later discovered him living in Walker or Chattooga County, Georgia. Around that time, he had moved his first wife and family from Walker County to Summerville, Chattooga County, Georgia, and ran display ads there for his services as an attorney.
Cobb County, Georgia, prosecuted him on the bigamy charge and won. D. C. Sutton spent the next two years in prison at Cedartown, Polk County, Georgia.
[Reference]: D. C. Sutton in a notice "To The Public,"
The Summerville Gazette (Summerville, Ga.) 1874-1889, 25 July 1878, page 2 (digital image 2), Georgia Historic Newspapers, Georgia Public Library Service, University System of Georgia. https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn86053145/1878-07-25/ed-1/seq-2/print/image_578x817_from_2949,364_to_3937,1760/
(accessed 22 January 2022).
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