Here is some of my family history:
Henry Hurst was born in 1771 in Gwynedd township, Pa., and Jacob Demuth was born in 1779 in Lancaster Pennsylvania. In 1800 Henry Hurst married Eva (Lowman) Jauch who had been widowed in the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia. Henry Hurst and wife Eva had a daughter Ann Frances Veronica Hurst in 1801 and eventually moved to Lancaster, PA.
By 1822 Henry Hurst and Jacob Demuth were both widowers. At the Moravian Church in Lancaster Henry Hurst married a niece of Jocob Demuth, who should have been about the age of her new stepdaughter and thus twenty to thirty years younger than her husband.. And a few days later the new stepdaughter Anne Frances Veronica Hurst got a new name when she married Jacob Demuth who was 22 years older. Both Henry Hurst and Jacob Demuth had children by those later marriages.
That made Anne Frances Veronica Hurst Demuth the half sibling of Henry Hurst's later children, as well as their grandaunt by marriage. It made the children of Henry Hurst's second marriage the grandnephews and grandnieces of Jacob Demuth and also his half brothers-in-law and half sisters-in-law.
Imaging trying to draw a family tree showing the relationships resulting from those marriages and other marriages of Jacob Demuth and his relatives I imagined it would get very complicated with relationship lines crisscrossing like crazy. So I made up a little genealogical rhyme:
"Oh what a tangled web we weave,
when first we practice to conceive"
Anyway, Henry Hurst had a daughter born when he was 60 or 61, and a son, Elam D. Hurst, who might have descendants to the present. Jacob Demuth and Anne Frances Veronica Hurst Demuth had nine children, including Henry Cornelius Demuth I, (1830-1906) one of my great great grandfathers.
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