This is my bit of a blog. Rambling words about rambling days. No focus and nothing ambitious. I seem to write most about local color, nature, and animals, and there is an incomplete chunk about my road trips of 2011.
Monday, July 9, 2012
Consort
Women's headstones often refer to them as wives of their husbands. I noticed many women's headstones at the local cemetery refer to them as 'consorts'. I thought perhaps these were common law wives, never formally married. But according to rumors online, a consort is a formally married wife, but she specifically died before her husband. If she had died after him, apparently she would be his 'relict'.
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