Unraveling a Hilarious Family Entanglement: Funny Story Kin Folks

Printed in The Eastman Times on February 20, 1879

Taken from The Albany Advertiser.

Two men in Perry married each other’s daughters.  They are each other’s father-in-law; hence, each other’s son in law; and their wives are each other’s stepdaughters; hence each other’s stepmother.  

Yes, and since each man is son in law of his father-in-law, he must be his own brother-in-law.  And by the same course of reasoning each lady is her own sister-in-law. And then if they are blessed with offspring each man will be grandfather of his father’s child, and as a matter of course his own grandfather.  

If you can make any other relationship for these kin folks out of the parties, do it.  It makes our head ache to go further on the subject.