As I work through the family tree, I see many relatives that never married. One family in particular stands out. I have been searching for the links to Huntington’s Chorea in the Jeffrey Ferris lineage and came across this family.
There are a fair number of members of the Jeffrey Ferris lineage who never married, despite living to a ripe old age. It appears that, if you were the child left to care for your aging parents, you were highly likely to never marry. Sons for mothers and daughters for fathers are the usual arrangements. […]