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hi friends

In 1855, my grandfather, after being widowed by the wife of his youth at the age of seventy-five, found it appropriate to marry a woman fifty years younger than him, and she was only 25 years old. There was no family or other connection to her, and three weeks after the marriage it appears that he died.

Should a marriage at the age of seventy-seven, in those years when life expectancy was not the same as today, to a twenty-five-year-old girl, with his death recorded three weeks later, raise questions, or was it a completely normal thing?
I would be happy to get any ideas what my it be

Avraham
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Hi,
Such a case is not common, but it is not isolated either. I once saw records with similar age gaps in marriages. Usually, one party had the wealth and the other had the advantages of youth. However, sometimes other factors could be at play, such as a conflict with children.
In this case, one can imagine a lonely man who has no contact with his children and is being cared for by a young woman; he then decides to leave her everything he owns as a gesture of gratitude for her care.
Well just to jump to 70th we have a story of a Polish women Barbara Piasecka who married John Seward Johnson I. The difference was 42 years but marriage lasted for 12th years.
Was the man living alone or with his family?
The very short life expectancy was influenced also by high mortality of children esp below second year of life.