Posts in October 7, 2024

An ancestor of mine was married four times. Little is known about her origins in Germany or those of her first husband (from whom I descend). Her third husband’s Germanic origins are well-documented. He appears to have been someone she met after having been in the United States for some time and not someone with whom she shared a connection “across the pond.” Then there’s the second “husband.” Little research has been done on him, but it’s known she started a relationship with him within a few months of her first husband’s death in 1855, that her marriage to him was not a legal one, and that their relationship ended a few months after he was declared guardian for her children in the spring of 1856. Is it […]