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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 412082" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>We had a similar situation with one of my mothers cousins, but back then, it just wan't talked about. This cousin was about my mothers age, born somewhere between 1915-1920. Her mother was one of my grandfathers "missing" sisters, one of the three that didn't grow up in the same household. This woman lived with her mother and three children, a boy my older brothers age, a girl about my age, and a younger girl. Supposedly she had been married years before and she and the children went by a different last name than her mother but I don't ever remember seeing him and the children didn't remember him at all. I'm not sure if he ever existed, but if he did, he had been gone for years. I remember when the youngest girl was born - I was probably five or six at the time. This was back in the fifties and I never did understand it because at the time, I didn't know anyone who didn't have both a mother and a father at home! And I remember that the mother worked in a doctors office and that the family seemed to be dirt poor! I still don't know if she was ever married but years later my mother told me about her cousin, that this doctor she worked for was really the father of all three of her children! I never did find out if the name of the supposed "husband" was really this doctors name, if she really had been married at one time and he left, or if she just made up the "husband". But apparently this doctor had a very sickly, invalid wife and he strung the cousin along all those years by promising that he would marry her when his wife finally died. Then, as luck would have it, <u>HE</u> had a heart attack and died! The sickly wife outlived him by several years and inherited everything he had, while the cousin was left with three children to support and no job after the doctor died! He made no provisions for the children in his will and apparently the "sickly" wife had no idea that they even existed! If this was today, lawsuits would be flying, but back then she would have rather starved than to admit that she had had three children by a man she wasn't married to! They just dealt with it and moved on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 412082, member: 1883"] We had a similar situation with one of my mothers cousins, but back then, it just wan't talked about. This cousin was about my mothers age, born somewhere between 1915-1920. Her mother was one of my grandfathers "missing" sisters, one of the three that didn't grow up in the same household. This woman lived with her mother and three children, a boy my older brothers age, a girl about my age, and a younger girl. Supposedly she had been married years before and she and the children went by a different last name than her mother but I don't ever remember seeing him and the children didn't remember him at all. I'm not sure if he ever existed, but if he did, he had been gone for years. I remember when the youngest girl was born - I was probably five or six at the time. This was back in the fifties and I never did understand it because at the time, I didn't know anyone who didn't have both a mother and a father at home! And I remember that the mother worked in a doctors office and that the family seemed to be dirt poor! I still don't know if she was ever married but years later my mother told me about her cousin, that this doctor she worked for was really the father of all three of her children! I never did find out if the name of the supposed "husband" was really this doctors name, if she really had been married at one time and he left, or if she just made up the "husband". But apparently this doctor had a very sickly, invalid wife and he strung the cousin along all those years by promising that he would marry her when his wife finally died. Then, as luck would have it, [U]HE[/U] had a heart attack and died! The sickly wife outlived him by several years and inherited everything he had, while the cousin was left with three children to support and no job after the doctor died! He made no provisions for the children in his will and apparently the "sickly" wife had no idea that they even existed! If this was today, lawsuits would be flying, but back then she would have rather starved than to admit that she had had three children by a man she wasn't married to! They just dealt with it and moved on. [/QUOTE]
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