KEEPING THE CRADLE FULL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 107, 28 June 1911, Page 7

KEEPING THE CRADLE FULL.

o A MOTHER OF FIFTY. hi the district of Kroonstad, in the .\:\zvnau lives the widow of \an ,) k, whoso history, matrimonially ad otherwise, is—not to put Loo line i naint upon it—coincwlisvt out oi the omnion. jinin on October 20th, 183/, jirs. Fan Wyk (nee Theila M. de •ai i began what was to prove an , mtiid career at the ago of- eighteen. . ,ieu she married Petrus Jacobin! .T.hho. At the end of two years she belino a widow with one child. After ■■•• mg n widow for ten months, says Volsbciu, she married iNicohuis yfarbhiiUiS Frotoriouc, a widower ith four children. Alter living with im a year and live months lie altar ■ Ld, leaving her witii live children, •’tor five months site married, for the , Ini time, David Stephanas Ploterse, widower witii seven children. With him she also lived eleven •m s and had seven children, when ho 'so died. After live years’ widownil she married, for the fourth Lime, Vvuiel Lodewikus Cron jo, a widower iiii eight children. With him she • o 1 iPod eleven years, and had four ■hiklron, when ho, too, died. Five ■jars later she'married, for the fifth i ae, Hendrik Klopper. With him she also lived eleven i-V3, and' had ten children, when he V.) died. After two years she mur'd for the sixth time, on this occai jii witii Coenvnad Hendrik van Wyk/ widower witii five children, with . liom she had four children. After having lived together for ’ von years he also died. She had finis fifty children who call her motlir. and about 270 grandchildren. She is still alive at the ago of 78 years.