WILLIAM BENT'S SISTER-IN-LAW

William Bent was married to Owl Woman, and then to her sister Yellow Woman. There was a third sister, named Making-Out-Road. Details are found in a book titled The Rath Trail:

"William Bent's wife Owl Woman also belonged to the tribe that had charge of the four sacred arrows which had been brought to the Cheyenne in the beginning of time by Sweet Medicine. According to family history and records John H. Seger obtained when Cheyenne Belle was entered at Darlington school, Roadmaker was a sister of William Bent's wife, [2] a fact not commonly known to historians."

And,

"Roadmaker's first marriage to Kit Carson lasted little better than a year, a time of violent quarrels. "

Later, she married Charles Rath:

"Before Charles Rath, who was twenty-four years old, took the plunge, however, he may have talked with William Bent. He has been quoted as saying there Were two ways to get on With the Indians-sell them liquor or marry into the tribe. He himself had chosen the latter, marrying Owl Woman first and after her death there was the sister Yellow Woman. So the young Rath's eye Was "peeled out" for Making-Out-Road, Whose name, Without doubt, he quickly shortened to plain Roadmaker."

William Bent and Kit Carson had been married to sisters. Later, according to the Women of Boggsville website, Kit Carson again married into the extended Bent family:

"Boggsville was founded by Thomas Oliver Boggs and his wife, Rumalda Luna Boggs. Rumalda was born into the Jaramillos of Taos, a very influential family in the early days of New Mexico.......Shortly after Rumalda's birth, her father died and left her mother, Ignacia Jaramillo, a widow. A few years later, Ignacia remarried. Rumalda's new father was Charles Bent, of Bent, St. Vrain and Co., builders of Bent's Fort.....In 1846, Charles Bent was named the new American Governor of New Mexico but on January 19, 1847, an angry mob of Hispanics and Taos Indians began the Taos Uprising. They stormed Bent's home and shot and scalped Charles Bent. By this time, Rumalda had married Tom Boggs and she and her aunt, Josefa Jaramillo Carson (wife of Kit Carson), were caught as they tried to escape from the house through a hole they had dug in the adobe wall. Held in the house by the rebels, Rumalda held her stepfather in her arms as he died."