
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, December 21, 1993                   TAG: 9312210179
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: LON WAGNER
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

GALLIMORE, WIFE NO. 1 DIVORCE

A year after polygamy preacher Elwood Gallimore told the members of his Henry County church he was taking a 16-year-old as his second wife, he and his legal wife have agreed to terms of their divorce.

Gallimore, the preacher at Evangelistic Tabernacle in Bassett Forks, and his wife, Janice, worked out the details of the agreement themselves, his attorney, Jimmy Turk, said. Those details were presented in the form of an order Monday to a Pulaski County court.

Elwood Gallimore, 45, agreed to pay his wife of 26 years $100 a week in spousal support. In addition, Janice Gallimore will be able to live in the Gallimores' Pulaski County home, and Elwood Gallimore agreed to pay her utility bills and her car payments.

Turk said the separation and property settlement agreements will provide the framework for the final divorce settlement. The terms of the settlement would not change unless Janice Gallimore marries again.

"He says, of course, under his religious beliefs, that she will always be his wife," Turk said of Gallimore.

by CNB