Widerquist
Aufrida Georgina (Hamilton) Widerquist (1861–1939), wife of Simon Benioff.
Aufrida left her home (Åkersberg cottage, Karstorp farm, Bälaryd Parish, Jönköping län, Sweden) at the age of 18 and traveled to Chicago where we lose track of her for about 20 years.
In 1899, she married Simon Benioff when he was a ladies tailor and she worked for him as a seamstress. She was pregnant with Victor Hugo Benioff at the time of their marriage, and they were divorced three months after the marriage. She raised Hugo Benioff alone in Pasadena, California.
There is an extensive Widerquist family tree on Ancestry, managed by Linda Hoeschler, going back many generations.
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