Elena

Artemis, a disabled Civil War veteran who required two crutches to walk and suffered from several other ailments.

According to Owen, Brewer was, quote, an unusually short man with an enormous disproportionate head and had long, scraggly, unkempt whiskers and very large feet.

That's a read and a half.

What a description.

Aww.

And unkempt whiskers.

Really short.

Yeah.

So the marriage lasted less than a year and came to an end when Brewer died unexpectedly in the night.

Ruh-roh.

Years later, Brewer's doctor would tell others that he suspected that he had been poisoned with the opium-based medicine he took for his pain.

But Lizzie maintained it was edema that killed him.

Sure.

When anyone asked, she would say, it can be proved how he died.

It was dropsy, dropsy of the heart.

The doctor will tell you.

Everything was dropsy back then.

Yeah, dropsy is basically edema.

So, in her version of events, Lizzie claimed her second husband was, quote, a bad old man who was inclined to let me support him.

Okay.