None of this happened to Sarah or Joseph in isolation.
Sarah's older brother, Joel Roger Carter Jr., built and lost an oatmeal milling fortune between Akron and Peoria, married three times without ever divorcing his first wife, and died in California around 1891, leaving roughly $200,000 fought over by three wives.
He "bigamously remarried" in America, and "there was much a to-do in sorting out his will,"40 Anne Speight described in her Carter family account.
And then there was the Lehman family:
The exploits of Joseph's younger brother, Andrew, ran through the Akron papers across the 1880s and 1890s. He disappeared from the city in 1900, and never heard from for years.
In June 1913, word reached the family that a man matching his description had been killed at a rail crossing in Paterson, New Jersey.
After his cousin identified the body, Andrew was buried at St. Bernard's, the same cemetery as Joseph.41 There they joined their father Peter, mother Theresa, brother Frank and Frank's son, all who predeceased him.
The Lehmann family, circa 1890. From left, back row: Andrew, an unidentified cousin, Joseph, Louis, and front row, Trace, Theresa, and Mary.