Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1909 — WEDS HIS SON'S DIVORCED WIFE; IS HE HIS OWN DAD? [ARTICLE]

WEDS HIS SON'S DIVORCED WIFE; IS HE HIS OWN DAD?

Rich Rhode Island Man Becomes Stepfather of Grandson; Spouse Grandmother of Own Child.

Woonsocket. U. 1.. Dec. 3. —By marrying his son’s divorced wife, Thomas Fenley, seventy-one years of age. a wealthy lesident of this city, became the stepfather of his grandson. It is also argued by persons who are studying the tangled relationships In the case that Mrs. Fenley becomes by this marriage a grandmother of her son. She also becomes stepmother of her which makes the latter a brother-in-law of his own son.' Carried still further, this reasoning indicates that the elder Fenley, by marrying his daughter-in-law, become? in a sense his own father, o Then, if issue should result from this marriage—here, however, the lovers of puzzles have thrown up their hands. Mrs. Fenley, once his daughter-in-law, now his wife, was divorced from Tdward Fenley, son of Thomas Fenley, about five years ago in Providence.