One of my great-grandfather’s first cousins was born on her parents’ homestead in Nebraska in 1888. Those parents had married in their native Illinois in the early 1880s, in the county where they were born and raised. They moved to Nebraska shortly after their marriage where they remained and raised their children.
For reasons currently known only to history, one of their children returned to the Illinois county where her parents were born, married a man from there, and remained there until her death. It’s possible she met the man while on a trip to Illinois to visit family, but her own parents did not return to Illinois for any significant length of time.
Is it possible that one child of that family who went west actually returned to where their parents were from back east?
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I had something similar happen. My Vermont greatgrandpa and his wife moved to Iowa 1856 but returned to Vt where their daughter was born. A family had a letter asking them to return as his father was very ill. They moved back to Iowa in time for their other children to be born.