St. Jerome
mentions a widow who married her twenty- second husband, who in
his time had taken to himself 20 loving spouses. A gentleman
living in Bordeaux in 1772 had been married 16 times.
DeLongueville, a Frenchman, lived to be one hundred and ten years
old, and had been joined in matrimony to 10 wives, his last wife
bearing him a son in his one hundred and first year.
Possible Descendants.--When we indulge ourselves as to the
possible number of living descendants one person may have, we
soon get extraordinary figures. The Madrid Estafette states that
a gentleman, Senor Lucas Nequeiras Saez, who emigrated to America
seventy years previously, recently returned to Spain in his own
steamer, and brought with him his whole family, consisting of 197
persons. He had been thrice married, and by his first wife had 11
children at 7 births; by his second wife, 19 at 13 births, and by
his third wife, 7 at 6 births. The youngest of the 37 was
thirteen years old and the eldest seventy. This latter one had a
son aged forty-seven and 16 children besides. He had 34
granddaughters, 45 grandsons, 45 great granddaughters, 39 great
grandsons, all living. Senor Saez himself was ninety-three years
old and in excellent health.
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