Christian Longacher had a new wife about every ten years

I just discovered two new wives for Christian Longacher. Counting the two we were already aware of that makes four wives (within twenty-four years). He married Belle Grimm in 1895 (he was 23) in Berne, Indiana, then married Laura Rhodes in 1906 in Elkhart County, Indiana (where he lived most of the time), then married Ella Newman in 1916 in St. Joseph, Michigan, and for his four wife married Elsie Kingery in 1919 in St. Joseph County, Indiana (South Bend).

He may have been married a fifth time but I'm still researching the details of that marriage. Christian was a day laborer and shipping clerk for most of his working career but the last few years of his life he lived in the County Infirmary in Elkhart County.

Margaret E. Bell and Ella Bell are the same person!

I found an error in my list of Thomas and Minerva Helmer Bell's children. It turns out that Margaret E. Bell is the same daughter as Ella Bell. I have combined those two children into one, Margaret Ellen Bell. She was born 18 March 1840 and died 15 February 1902. She and her husband John J. Jones are buried in Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio.