General Discussion

when modern pharmacology and safe surgical techniques did not exist.

One of my ggg-grandfathers was married 3 times. His first wife died giving birth to their 4th child. The baby lived. Relatives helped care for the baby and other children. He remarried 2 years after losing his wife. His second wife died within a year of their wedding, of complications in a miscarriage/early birth in her one and only pregnancy. The fetus/baby died, too. They are buried together in a family plot.

He married again 5 years later. His third wife was my ggg-grandmother. My gg-grandmother was her 5th child.

Walk through the old section (1600s through 1800s and early 1900s) of cemeteries and look at the dates of birth and death for the women. You will see many who died in their 20s and 30s. Some will be buried with infants whose death dates are the same as the mother. Dates in family plots will tell similar stories to my ggg-grandfather's wives.

That is the era that MAGAs want to return to.