A man's wife died.

The evidence

• “In religion he was a Seventh Day Baptist, and in politics a Whig and Republican. His devoted wife died in 1857 and he was married to Mrs. Susan H.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34c-biographical-3.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 449 / book p. 938

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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