William (Seiler) Saylor is listed in the 1820 and 1830 census with the eldest female in his household being in the same age bracket. 1830 places their respective births between 1780 and 1790. William is listed in 1840 with the eldest female being just 40-49 while he was 50-59, placing William's birth again between 1780 and 1790 but placing his "wife's" birthday between 1790 and 1800. In the 1850 census, he is listed as 60 and his wife Julianna (sometimes known as Judah) as 50. All that, in and of itself, is not sufficient to say there were two different wives. However, there is also this ...
The 1865 gravestone of his daughter Hannah born 1817 is clearly inscribed in part, "Daughter of William & Christina Saylor" while the 1896 obituary of his daughter Mary born 1813 says that Mary was the daughter of William and Judith Saylor. Obviously, the two sisters could have had two different mothers, but Mary was born before Hannah while William remained married to Julianna until his death in 1858.
To complicate matters, William had a daughter Anna Christina born in 1819 and a daughter Julia Ann born in 1821.
What is the likelihood that, for Mary's obituary, her family named Judith as her mother because she was the one they grew up calling "grandmother"? I still have profiles to add for children of William and wanted to stop and get some advice on this problem. The best solution, though not likely to be found, would be for someone to have left a will during this period in which they named a deceased daughter Christina with Saylor children. Help!!
