Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-24
WHAT LOVE DOES.
A Man Who Was Fafherin.Iaw to
His Mother-fn.Iaw

80, yes" said an attorney to whom
reporter applied for any information
he might possess on the subject of
whimsical marriages, II know Of
case IN this city where two uncles
and their nephew married three sistS
ers. Thus the nephew's wife became
the niece Of her sisters, and her hus-
band became the brother-in law of
his uncles. His first boy became the
grand nephew OF MS aunts; his moth
er's sisters and his cousins were nee
essarily his aunts and dlcles.n
Thus encouraged the reporter with
mission looked about for more
whimsical marriages and learned of
half dozen in as many hours A
prominent sewlng>machine man who
formerly lived in this city mar
ried widow who had young
daughter. When the latter had grown
up to womanhood the sewing machine
man obtained divorce from his wife
and married her daughter. making
his former wife his mother>in-law,
the three were often seen riding out
together Ia the same carriage It is
but few years since certain we'll
known historian and poet, after the
death of his wife, married her daught-
er by previous marriage, much to
the disgust of his son, who found
that his sister had suddenly grown
into his mother-in>law.
But the queerest case of all is that
of Widower and son who married
widow and der daughter, the son mar
rying the mother and the father the
daughter. When the wldower mar
ried the daughter be became father-in-
law to the widow, who was his dau :
ghter>in-law; or, IN other words, was
father-inslaW to his mother-in-
law. His wife became the step-moth-
er of his son-in-law, who was IN fac5
her half brother, being the full son of
her father, her husband When the
son married the widow he became the
father-in-law of his own father, be-
cause his wife was his fathers wife's
mother. By his marriage the son be-
came the step-father of his step-moth-
er who was his his step-daughter. The
widow is not only the mother of her
daughter, bat also her daughter in
law and her daughter becomes her
mother-i law. The widow is like
wise the daughter~in-law of her NUS
bands father, who, it will be remem-
bered, is her son>in~law by reason of
being her daughters husband. By
marrying the widow the son became
the son-in-law of his mother, the wife
of his father. The son becomes the
father OF his fathers wife, his half,
sister, his own daughter, because she
is the daughter Of ms own wife. The
old gentleman, by his marriage with
the daughter, becomes his sons wife's
son>in-law, that Lady likewise being
his daughter-in>law, although being
his wife's mother The fathers wife,
as step-mother to his children. is
therefore step>mother to her mother,
and step-father, the latter being the
son of her husband. If the union of
the son and the widow be blessed with
a girl babe, the little one would ordin-
arlly be the old gentleman's grand
child In this instance, however
the old man being son>in law TO The
son-he, in addition to being its grand
father, is a half-brother to the infant,
and the child is baif-sister to its
grandmother. In case tie daughter,
who married the widower, should
have boy, he would at once become
his grandmother's half~brother and
her brother-in~law at the same time.