Kate’s notes: I’m sure there is a very interesting story behind this and hopefully at some point in future I will be able to add a postscript.

The Daily Press
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
15 April, 1910

NOT A SPINSTER AFTER ALL
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Hidden Will shows Pennsylvania
Woman had Kept Secret of
Marriage for Years
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   Lewistown, Pa. – Miss Rhoda Taylor, whose friends believed her to be a spinster, died recently, and in settling her estate the administrator advertised the farm, an old homestead, with stock and implements, at public sale.
    On the morning of the sale, when the auctioneer mounted the block, he announced that the affair was postponed indefinitely.
    The supposed spinster’s last will and testament had been found, and in it she bequeaths all her worldly goods to her husband, and attached to the document was a marriage certificate, showing that she had been married to Samuel Gilliland more than five years previous to her death.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2013