My aunt and her husband married in Hancock County, Illinois, in the early 1880s and by the mid-1880s they settled in the same Nebraska county where her brother and his family settled at about the same time. My aunt and her husband remained in that Nebraska county until their death. Virtually all of their children lived and died in that same Nebraska county.
Except for their first daughter who was born in Nebraska. For some reason she returned to Hancock County, Illinois, where she married in 1910 and where she spent virtually the remainder of her life. I’m not certain precisely what caused her to move back, it’s possible she went to visit relatives who remained in the area and met her future husband there and stayed.
Even though a couple and their entire family may move to an area, it’s possible that for one reason or another one or more of their children returns to an area where that couple used to live and ends up staying–even if that child never lived in the area.
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