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From: Janet Brigham Rands <>
Subject: RE: [MIWASHTE] MOUNT, TWISS, DUNNING
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 18:38:19 -0700
In-Reply-To: <F129VreImjVTML0SLFq00003d77@hotmail.com>


I don't have any answers specific to your ancestor, but I can tell you that
the last time my husband and I went to extraordinary efforts to trace one
person married to two people, we found that it was actually TWO people with
the same name married to two different people.

We concluded that bigamy was less likely than the fact that two men (perhaps
cousins) were born about the same time and had the same name. Hence our
diagnosis: two separate marriages, two separate husbands.

I note in my own family history that lots of people share the same name. (I
have, I think, four Sally Overackers.)

Good luck,

Janet Brigham, Ph.D.
SRI International
333 Ravenswood Ave.
Menlo Park, CA 94043 USA
650-969-6567 phone
650-969-3472 fax



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ronda Oberlin [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 4:23 PM
> To:
> Subject: [MIWASHTE] MOUNT, TWISS, DUNNING
>
>
> I'm trying to solve a mystery regarding Elijah MOUNT. He was born
> 1818 in NY
> and moved to Lodi Twp around 1835 with his father David Gordon MOUNT, and
> brothers Barclay and Abram.
>
> Elijah married Cornelia TWISS in 1836 in Washtenaw Co and they
> had at least
> four children:
>
> Sarah C. b. 1839, married D.D. DUNNING in 1861
> Amelia Desire b. 1841, married Edwin Otis BARTON in Calhoun Co in 1869
> John David b. 1842, d. 1849 - buried in Lodi Cemetery
> Jane (Jennie) b. 1858
>
> In 1860 Elijah and Cornelia were living in Lodi with their three
> girls. In
> 1861, Cornelia, at least, was living with her brother in Burlington,
> Calhoun, MI.
>
> The mystery is what happened to Elijah. He either died--he's not
> buried in
> Lodi Cemetery as far as I can tell--or, my personal favorite, he divorced
> Cornelia.
>
> Nothing against Cornelia, but my ancestor Elijah MOUNT showed up in
> Hillsdale County in 1863 where he married Helen DURFEE. He was
> born around
> 1820 in NY. They were living in Coldwater, Branch Co, in 1865.
>
> Amelia and her husband settled in Union Twp, Branch Co. Jennie is living
> with them in 1880 and then I lose track of her. I lose track of Sarah and
> her husband, D.D. DUNNING, immediately, but he was living in Lodi
> when they
> were married, so I suspect that's where they lived--at least for a while.
>
> I've checked early divorces in Washtenaw, Branch and Calhoun
> counties but I
> haven't found anything.
>
> Does anyone have any information on Elijah MOUNT--I'll take him dead or
> divorced--or on his daughters?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ronda Oberlin
> Lansing, MI
>
>
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