Before Sara Stina Danielsdotter married Carl Johan Larsson, had a family and emigrated to the US she had been married to his brother, Lars Magnus Joachim Larsson.
Sara Stina and Lars Magnus had two sons, Lars Johan and Franz Oscar. Both boys died in their first year of life. Lars Magnus died at 35. In 1866 Sara Stina was 31 years old and a widow. The following year she married her brother in law. A legal procedure was required to cancel the “brother-in-law-ship”.