Fearless Females March 19: Suprising Facts!

Have you discovered a surprising fact about one of your female ancestors? What was it and how did you learn it? How did you feel when you found out?

For this entry I'm going to defer to my post about Shocking Family Stories.  My discovery of the murder of my 3rd great grandmother by her husband, my 3rd great grandfather.  I'll say at first I was horrified and the newspaper accounts of the incident are quite detailed about the account.