I’m thinking along the lines of older spouse dies, younger spouse marries someone younger and becomes the older spouse. Then older spouse dies again and repeat. Has anything like this happened in a long enough chain to be significant? Is it so mundane no one cares?

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    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.

    Some of the detail might be off, going off of memory, but that’s the general gist.

    EDIT:
    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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        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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    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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    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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      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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      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.