Friday, November 11, 2011
Three Wives and more..................
Christian Ehresman, a distant ancestor, married three sisters. With the first sister he had five children in Germany, then they immigrated and settled in Butler County, Ohio where his first wife died. Then he married her younger sister and they had five children. They moved from Ohio to Deer Creek Illinois where Anna died. Then Christian married their younger daughter Fannie. He had eleven children with her, some of which died in infancy ............ altogether he had 18 children that lived to adulthood. Family lore has it that on the wedding day to his first wife he held her infant sister Fanny in his arms!!! This family info gets better and better.
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Stuff like this makes genealogy painful at times to keep track of. I occasionally find a last name that looks familiar and upon inspection find a sibling, uncle, grandchild of that person already in my family tree creating some headache inducing circle. I don't believe I have had an ancestor marry a sister of a deceased spouse but I am currently working on one who married the older sister of his younger brother's wife.
ReplyDeleteEd.................. don't ever be surprised by what you find; I'm finding new stories all the time. My family clothesline is certainly becoming more and more filled with laundry that didn't quite get thoroughly scrubbed!
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