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Message:: [QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 582025, member: 59"]Scotch-Irish out of the part of Virginia that became West Virginia during the Civil War. Both sides of the family had been in the US for several generations at that point. He was born in 1850 and married twice (first wife died in 1886 and second wife - my grandfather's mother - was 18 years his junior when they married in 1891.) By the time of "the transaction" in 1918 they were living in Indiana. I wouldn't call her life "faring well." The buyer was 26 years older than her and they were already not living together in 1920 (she and 2 daughters were living with her parents.) By the time of her father's death she was far away and married to a second husband. She married a third time some time in the 1930's and as far as I know had no children after the first 2. But she had a long life, dying at 88, back in Indiana with the relative who informed me of the story.[/QUOTE]