It’s easy to get an assumption in our head and not realize it was an assumption.<\/p>\n
Wilhelmina Kraft was listed as an heir when her brother died in Illinois in 1869. I found her in a few census records after that, but could not find out anything about her before the estate settlement. No children are listed with her in the census and I assumed she had none. I searched various records for her with her married name of Kraft and with her maiden name of Trautvetter.<\/p>\n
Nothing.<\/p>\n
Then it dawned on me. Her marriage to Kraft could have been a later-in-life marriage as she would have been in her sixties when her brother died. She could easily have had a husband (and been married to him for decades) before marrying Mr. Kraft. She could be easily be listed in a variety of United States records under another surname.<\/p>\n
That could explain why I was not finding anything, including a marriage between Wilhelmina Trautvetter and a Mr. Kraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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