The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-11-21
A CURIOUS PEDIGREE.
a Very Much Tangled Life
Skcin. The Curious Relation
ship. of John Williams and
Mary and Sallie Morgan.

On the 10Th of October, John
Williams, of Lanford, Florida, shot
himself. No reason was known Ia
his friends for the rash act; but a
letter was discovered in a drawer OF
his secretary, addressed to his wife,
as follows:
In Certain village in Orange
county dwelt two women, mother
and daughter. The mothers name
was Mary Morgan and the daugh-
ter's was Sally. John became en-
amored of the mother Mary and
married her.
Henry Williams, the father. of
John, was so smitten with the
charms of Sally, the daughter of
Mary, whom he met for the first time
at the wedding of his son, that he
laid violent siege to the citadel of
that young lady's affections, and so
successfully that in a brief period
they were knitted fast together in
Hymen's silver bands.
But this Is the age of thought
and one day, when glutted with the
unstinted offering of the harvest
moon, John dared TO exercise the
franchise Of a freeman, and thought,
The result was not encouraging; for
it disclosed such a history of him
self as had never entered into his
mind to conceive. The family rela-
tives had grown muddled by this
double marriage, and the following
singular facts presented themselves
to his inquiring mind.
By these marriages, Mary, the
mother of Sally, had become the
wife of John, and on her husbands s
side, the daughter, then the sister
of his son, who was her husband,
and since Henry the father of John,
and by the marriage had become
her father, had, in the meantime,
married her daughter, he thus be
came, not only in law, her father,
but also her son, and if her son,
then his son, John, must bo her
grandson, and so her grandson,
John, was really her husband
Therefore, John had married his
grandmother2 And that grand.
mother-was his sister.
Next, Sally, the daughter of Mary,
had become the wife of Henry, the
father of John. OF course, John,
who had married her mother, and,
by her marriage TO his father, also
became her son. And since her
mother had married John, her hus
band, Henry's son, she, by right Of
John, who was in law, her father.
Then Henry, the father of john,
having married Sally, the daughter
of Mary, became in law, the son of
his sons wife, and ii his sons wife
was his mother, then his son was
his father, also.
STILL FURTHER TANGLED.
And finally, John, the son Of
Henry, had married Mary, the
mother of Sally, who had married
his father, Henry, and this state Of
things followed: BY his marriage to
Mary, the mother, he had become
the step-father of Sally, and the fa
ther. in law of his father, Henry,
Sally, his step daughter, became in
law his mother. And If she was
his mother, then her mother, Mary,
who he had married, must be his
grandmother. Therefore, he had
married his grandmother! Henry,
the father, having married Sally,
the daughter of Mary, which latter
was Johns wife, Henry became the
son of Mary, in law, and by the
right Of marriage, also the son Of
John, who was Henry's son. He
was his sons son, or in other words,
John was ais fathers father. Now,
if he was his fathers father, the IA
ther Of his father being hist Johns }
grandfather, it follows that he
(John) had, by a system of marri-
age, finally became his own grand
father, and had married his grand
mother, who was, also, his sister.
So remarkable a pedigree was
unheard of, and the unfortunate
man hastened to abruptly terminate
a life skein that only grew more
tangled as he sought TO unwind 1t.