The Republican journal., 1908-07-16
WHERE RELATIONS ARE MIXED.
Some Curious Problems That Have Result
ed from Unusual Marriages.

Some Curious Problems That Have Result
ed from Unusual Marriages.
A well.known Washington newspa
ner man married his brothers step
daughter. thus his brother becoming
his father.in-law, and his Slster-in-law
his mother-in-law. The girls step.
father became her brother-ln-law.
There is much food for thought and
a chance for mental collapse IN the
effort to figure out mixed family rela-
tionships complicated by unusual mar
riages. One man, William Harris of
Titusville, Pa, committed suicide be-
cause he ascertained, so ne SAID, That
he was his own grandfather. The man
left the following autobiography for
the coroner:
al married a widow who had grown
daughter My father visited us OFTEN,
fell in love with my stepdaughter and
married her. Thus my father became
nv son-in-law, and my stepdaughter,
being nv fathers wife, became my
stepmother. Soon after this distress
| ing complication arose my wife present
me with a son. This son was my
| fathers brother-in-law and my own
uncle. since he was a brother of my
stepmother. My fathers wife also be-
came the mother of boy. He was, of
course. nv brother and also my grand
child. for he was the son OF my daugh-
| ter. Also my wife was grandmother.
| | was nv Wife'S husband and grand
child at once. At the same time, as
the husband of persons grandmother
is the persons grandfather. l am my
own grandfather
A father and son involved them
selves by marriage in very tangled
relationship The son chose an elderly
woman, and the father married her
daughter. A child was born to each
couple. The difficult question at once
arose, what relationship was one child
to the other?
Miss Mile Beckenbougl of Minnesota
was married to her uncle'S brothers
niece's brother-in-law, and no one ever
has been able to untangle the relation
ship,
One of the governors of Missouri,
Claiborne F. Jackson, married one
after another five sisters. when for
the fifth time" says Arthur Herklmer,
the Missouri historian, jackson breach
ed a marital proposition to his father
in-law, the old man was eighty and
quite deaf, This is the conversation
Clldl euSuSu.
Il want Lizzie"
Hey"
81 want you-to give me-Eliza-
BETH
oh, you want me to give you Eliza
beth, do you? What for?'
'' For my wife
For your life?'
-marry-LizzieH
'Oh, yes, hear you. You need MT |
rouse the neighborhood.'
We'll, do you consent?'
Yes; | consent, said the old man,
as he shook his head and said slowly:
Yes, yon can have her. You've got
'em all now, my boy. But for goodness
sake, if anything happens to that girl
don't come back here and ask me for
the Old woman"
Richard Ellsworth of Sonoma, S. d.,
a man of sixty, married Jennie Barrett,
aged twenty. At the same time his
son, aged thirty, married the mother OF |
Jennie, IL fair charmer of forty-one. All
four lived on adjoining ranches, and
there was double wedding. The girl
of twenty becomes the stepmother-ln-
law of her own mother, and the son is
the father in-law of his fathers wife,
Kansas City Star.
In Belfast two brothers married re-
spectively mother and daughter, thus
becoming father-in-law and son-in-laW,
in addition to their fraternal relation.