Get a copy of "I AM MY OWN GRANDPA" By Grandpa Jones and all will become clear. Bob ----- Original Message ---- From: bobwonda@hiwaay.net To: ALBLOUNT-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 6:31:16 PM Subject: [ALBLOUNT-L] Blount County Genealogical Question, 1889 The Blount County News and Dispatch, 4 Jul 1889 Married-In the Court House at Blountsville, Ala., June 27th, 1889, by Rev. S.C. Allgood, Mr. Floyd Cornelius, a seventy-sixer, to Miss Sarah Holley, aged about 35 years. Two or three months ago the father of the bride was married to the daughter of Mr. Cornelius, the present bridegroom. It is now apparent that these two old fellows merely swapped housekeepers. The Blount County News and Dispatch, 11 Jul 1889 What Relation? We spoke last week of the marriage of Floyd Cornelius to Miss Sarah Holly which had been preceded a few weeks ago by the marriage of Joseph Holly to Miss A.E. Cornelius, the daughter of Floyd. A correspondent writing from this place to the Birmingham Age-Herald, asks: "Now Mr. Cornelius, as above stated, has married the only single daughter of Mr. Holly, and Holly is both the father-in-law and son-in-law of Cornelius, and Cornelius is both the father-in-law and son-in-law of Mr. Holly; and hence the mixture goes beyond the power of your scribe to compute. So we propound this question to the readers of the Age-Herald: What will be the relationship of the children if any born of these two remarkable marriages?" Another correspondent of the paper replies as follows: "This question can be easily solved, by asking another, viz: What relationship does a man's children sustain towards his grandchildren, and vice versa? Now, if there should be children of both sexes, born of each of these marriages, they would mutually sustain towards each other the double relationship of uncles and aunts, and nephews and nieces; because the two grooms, being both son-in-law and father-in-law to each other, the children born of these marriages are bound to follow the same double relationship that a man's children does towards his grandchildren, and also that a man's grandchildren do toward his children, hence, they are bound to be as stated above-uncles and aunts and nieces and nephews of each other. This seems, at first glance, certainly a very complicated and interesting question and not a puzzle. Very respectfully, Wm. A. Perrin." ==== ALBLOUNT Mailing List ==== List Website - http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/AL/blount.html Genealogy Links - http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch/GEN-links.htm ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx