In a message dated 98-07-29 21:10:30 EDT, you write: > I seems very odd to me that he would name specific people and yet say > "Christiana and children". IF she was a fourth wife, I would bet she > brought her own children to the marriage. Maggie, first let me correct a mistatement I made all along here. In looking at the will it appears to say Christina and not Christiana--which really would be the same name anyway--but I wanted to clear that up--the will says Christina. Next--yes--everything about the will and listings is correct in the article. However, like everything else there are two ways of seeing things--the will DOES name the wife Christina and it also names the children, and children of the deceased son Wilhelm--BUT it does not name them lumped all together. The will is divided into paragraphs with the beloved wife Christina in one paragraph and then "my children" in the following paragraphs. Nothing is said to lump Christina the wife to ANY of the children. Christian merely says MY children for all of them. Joan