Age is a State of Mind

[Kiki1958]

My great great grandmother, Mary Jane Dimond ( Hignell) was born in December 1850, in Newport Mon.  According to her death certificate ( she died in July 1921 in Brooklyn, NY) her date of birth was September 12, 1853.  Granted, the surviving relatives were under a good deal of stress, and the cert. said Mrs. Diamond died from a strangulated hernia of 6 days' duration, so it was not from a chronic illness.
All the same, why did my Great Grandmother put down her Aunt's birth date, and not her Mother's? 

I guess GG Grandma preferred being 67, and not 69.  Although Sarah Hignell stole her Father's trousers, I do not think she also swiped her older Sister's identity, husband and children.  That would be a plot from an old movie or a bad romance novel.

What do you think?