Married 20 years later?

[mona lisa]

Until recent times ca 1960's ? if a spouse was in a Mental Institution, a divorce was out of the question, as it was considered to be not the person's fault. I know of a marriage; that was 30 years after the fact. The spouse died and the husband was free to marry. The couple was well up in their 70's then.

[pinefamily]

My grandmother's parents did not marry until 1915; 35 years after my grandmother was born. I have since discovered that my great-grandmother's first husband ( who had deserted her) did not die until then. My great-grandparents had three daughters in the 1880's, then 3 more in the 1890's. I can't figure it out!

Darren