04/19/2026
Posting this not because you care about my relatives, but because there's a few things here that may be instructive.
Louisa Fuller is testifying about her husband in this 1906 deposition involving her husband's estate in Minot, North Dakota. His middle name in other records is William, but she indicated that at some point when they lived in Omaha (1880s-1890s) he started using the name Fred A. Fuller.
The Fullers were from Hancock County, Illinois, and in earlier testimony Louisa indicated they were married in 1879. Here she indicated they were married in Alexandra, Clark County, Missouri.
To which the lawyer asked "what were you doing there?"
They simply crossed the river to get married. They were from Warsaw, Illinois, which is right across the river from Alexandria. Here she indicated that she stayed with her cousin there for about two hours and they returned. She lived with another cousin for a few months after she married and before they moved to Kansas.
Both cousins were relatives of her mother's but were not siblings of each other (one was a first cousin and one was actually a first cousin once removed). Louisa mentions them in other parts of her testimony. Her keeping relationships with her cousins struck me as interesting as her mother died when she was twelve and her step-father I think was the one ended up raising her (along with her half sister who was his daughter).
Court testimony can shed a great deal of insight into a family.
--Michael
