Examples of married cousins........who are we to judge.
Jesse James married his
first cousin Zerelda “Zee” Mimms, who was named after
Jesse’s own mother. They had two children and remained married
until Jesse’s death in 1882 at the age of 34
Although they had met as children, they became
reacquainted after a dinner at the White House in 1902 held by
Eleanor’s uncle and Franklin’s fifth cousin, President
Teddy Roosevelt. FDR was 20 at the time and was
attending Harvard. They were married on St. Patrick’s Day, 1905,
and had six children.
In 1707 Johann Sebastian
Bach married his second cousin on his father’s
side, Maria Barbara Bach. She died in 1720. Not much is known about
their marriage, but he remarried less than two years after her
death.
H.G. Wells first cousin Isabel Mary
Wells, who he left after only three years. Wells was an English
writer most famous today for the science fiction novels
he published between 1895 and 1901: The Time Machine, The Island
of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, When
the Sleeper Wakes, and The First Men in the Moon.
Thomas Jefferson married his third
cousin Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson in 1772. They had six
children together. Martha died on September 6, 1782 and Jefferson
never remarried. (thomas jefferson had other
flints)
Albert
Einstein married his second cousin Elsa in 1919,
not too long after his divorce from his first wife Mileva. Elsa
died in 1936 due to various health problems, and though Albert
never married again he had several girlfriends until his death in
1955.
All natural selection jokes aside, the
man who popularized the
theory of evolution married his
first cousin Emma Wedgwood. They had a total of ten
children. Darwin died in
1882
In 1957 famous rock and roll musician Jerry Lee
Lewis married his cousin Myra, who was only 13 at the
time. He lost an incredible amount of respect and credibility. The
marriage almost ended his career and caused him to move from rock
to a more country style. They had two children together, and ended
up divorced in 1970.
Governor Rudy Giuliani married a woman who he
thought to be his third cousin, Regina Peruggi, in 1968. It wasn’t
until many years later that they realized that they were actually
second cousins. Regina and Rudy divorced in 1982, and Rudy married
his second wife Donna Hanover in 1984.
At the age of 20 poet Edgar Allen Poe moved in
with his aunt, uncle, and cousin after his father left and his
mother had died. It was there in Baltimore that he met his seven
year old cousin Virginia, who he fell in love with and married when
she was only thirteen. She died eighteen years later in 1847, and
Poe died only two years after Virginia’s death.
I thought the biggerest surprise was
Dawin.....
