What is the longest discontinuous marriage?

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• neidu2@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s a really interesting question, but I’m having a hard time seeing how one can look this up without direct access to an SQL database of all married people. Can we pay off some government sysadmin?

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  • SkipWapPallyPap@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m in!

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  • BarbecueCowboy@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The data is mostly already there and publicly maintained. Ancestry/familysearch/etc should get us something interesting at least, data is a little bit light outside the us but someone would just need to go through it.

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    • neidu2@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This sounds like a job for a weird spaghetti code contraption consisting of selenium, perl, DBI, postgres, and shitloads of caffeine. I’ll give it a look tomorrow, hoping that the captcha I assume is there can be circumvented or automated one way or another.

      I’m not really interested in the people, as I’m not from the US and am unlikely to be related to any of them. I’m just curious about the dataset itself, especially in relation to OPs question.

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  • Blizzard@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Now I’m even more interested to see the SQL query.

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• Alto@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not at all an answer to your question, but a very semi-related tangent.

  The last receipt of a US Civil War pension passed away relatively recently. She was a young woman who would regularly help out a local older man, a civil war vet with no kids or family otherwise. Towards the end of his days, he married her so she'd get the benefits of his pension, as things were really really tough.

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  • idiomaddict@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It sounds like you’re thinking of Helen Viola Jackson. I didn’t know that, but it was at the bottom of your Wikipedia link :)

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    • Alto@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah yep, you're right that's the one I was thinking of. Both are pretty interesting, forget how young this country is sometimes.

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  • AmidFuror@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Let's say he was 18 at the end of the war on 1865. That was 159 years ago they have to split between his remaining lifetime and all of hers. It's possible they both lived to 90.

    Less plausible is that his pension would go to a spouse he married after he retired from the service. Anyone know anything about that in modern times?

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    • Alto@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So I went to double check, and I got a fair bit of it wrong.

      Irene Triplett
      She was actually the daughter of the woman I thought I was talking about. Her mother married her father at ages 29 and 78 respectively, and she was born one of five children in 1930, living until the age of 90 before passing in 2020.

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    • zout@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It could have happened, if Helen Viola Jackson would have applied for the pension.

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  • bobburger@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It was a pretty common phenomenon. Wikipedia article about the subject

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• TheDoozer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the type of thing that could be answered if people followed banal statistical data the way sports people follow sports data.

  “This is the first time since 2017 they’ve scored over 30 points in the third quarter in a home game during the pre-season.”

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  • SkipWapPallyPap@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Honestly it would be kind of fun to hear those statistics. “This is the first time in 10 years SkipWapPallyPap has remembered an important before the date”.

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  • dogsnest@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    …on the first Sunday after the first full moon, post Vernal equinox.

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• KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  IMO, rather personal, and not statistically valuable information. Someone would need to scour endless records from different sources combining the info together and at best, they’d end up with a Guinness world record entry of some sort. Depending on the quality and age of records too you’re likely going to run into issues distinguishing people of the same name somewhere along the line.

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  • SkipWapPallyPap@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    True but that to me is why this question is kind of stupid. Luckily this community empowers me to ask questions like this.

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• Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Honestly, the answer probably involves a child bride somewhere…

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  • SkipWapPallyPap@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was thinking more along the lines of geriatric and quick turn around…

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    • Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That could work too. So like Anna Nicole Smith. Don’t know if she remarried though.

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• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sounds like a really complicated way to avoid probate.

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  • Alice@hilariouschaos.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Removed

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• half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What’s the remarry time frame limit? We talking next day?

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  • SkipWapPallyPap@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nah just in general. I mean it would work even if they get married the day before they pass away as long as their spouse gets married again and continues the cycle.

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