![]() ![]() Sarah’s husband, Jacob, was three years her senior: he was born on 20 October 1789 in Ernestown, in eastern Ontario. ![]() The following year Napoleon Bonaparte would marry his second wife, Marie Louise of Austria, and almost exactly one year later (on 27 April 1810) Beethoven would compose the now-renowned piece "Für Elise". The couple celebrated their wedding on 23 April 1809, in Jamestown, Canada. Sarah lived an incredible total of 106 years and 23 days before passing away due to old age after a light illness.īorn in 1792, on the certificate it’s possible to read that Sarah had been married since the age of 18 to her spouse, Jacob Miller, who was still alive at the time of her death. The Hillers have been recognized as the record holders for the title of the longest marriage (different sexes) ever after a thorough study of Sarah Davy Hiller’s death certificate, dated 8 April 1898. ![]() Their marriage lasted a whopping 88 years and 349 days – becoming, in fact, the longest ever. That wasn’t a question for Sarah and Jacob Hiller, a couple from Ontario, Canada, whose lives spanned across the 19th Century. Would you be ready to spend almost 90 years with your spouse? ![]()
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