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Ann Eliza Young didn't disappear!

posted 11 years ago by BKinzeys
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This is about the end of the movie but it's not a spoiler to the movie, just a changing of history.

This movie relies heavily on referencing the autobiographical book "Wife #19" by Ann Eliza Young.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Eliza_Young
During the epilogue the movie states Young disappeared in 1908. The link to Wiki states she died on December 7th, 1917 in Sparks, Nevada.

Why the heck would the movie change that historical fact? It adds nothing to the story to lie about what happened to her at the end of the movie. I deducted a point from my rating of this movie for that.

[–] thetaylors604 8 years ago

I thought that was weird, too. I looked her up online like you did, wanting to know more about her. Although she seems to have been estranged from her family later in life, she never disappeared.