There seems to be a problem with the Marriage Certificate i.r.o her age at marriage.
NOTES Luitha Margrietha Johanna (Swart) Degenaar was born in 1842:
She died in childbirth in December 1879, aged 38, with the birth of the second Leuta named child and already a widow.
Her husband, David Isak Degenaar- died 2 April 1879.
Both were buried on the farm Gelegenfontein, in the Biggarsberg on the Collingspass Road, district of Kliprivier, of her father, Nicolaas Gerhardus Swart.
"Hopetown, Cape Province, South Africa Records," images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK6-DQG8-B : February 18, 2021), image 6 of 122; Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk. Gemeente Alexandria (Cape Province), Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk. Gemeente Hopetown (Cape Province).
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I am indebted to Linda Buys Fouche for unstinting help in solving this mystery. I do apologise for not using the correct format- so many other researchers are also baffled by the "disappearance" of LMJ (Swart) Degenaar and they also need to know.
edited by Amour (de Wet) Helberg