Sharon, My GGM, at age 30 and pregnant with my GF, left her husband in Unter-Schönmattenwag, Hesse and emigrated to Chillicothe, Ohio in 1873. She never remarried, never naturalized and never went back. Chuck in Potomac ----- Original Message ----- From: Bart Hansen To: HESSE-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 3:44 PM Subject: [HESSE] Widow Immigrating? Sharon wrote: "I'm wondering what the likelihood of a widowed woman about age 30-35 with a child about 1-2 years old would be of her immigrating to the US? Just recently I've learned that my gggrandmother may have been married with a child prior to her marrying my gggrandfather." My answer to the first question is that it could easily happen; that she could be following a sibling to the US, or some from the family of her dead husband. On the second matter, I too, have a gggrandmother who came over with a babe in arms; following the man she would marry in Minnesota later that year. Bart ==== HESSE Mailing List ==== Many towns in Germany have the same name! Add the 5-digit zip code in front of the name! Zip codes explained, http://members.cox.net/hessen/table.htm