Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1889 — Slightly Strained Relations. [ARTICLE]

Slightly Strained Relations.

A novel and quite singular marriage has just been brought to light, which was celebrated in New York city recently. The groom is a wealthy old bachelor who has seen not less than seventy-five summers, while the bride is a handsome blonde of twennty-five, The gallant lover is the great uncle of the youthful spouse, and his marriage to her makes his wife the aunt of her father, the great aunt of her sisters, and the daughter-in-law of her father’s grandfather. She is her own aunt by marriage, the aunt of her mother, and her first cousin’s great aunt.