Thanks for this, my great-great grandfather's brother, who went to Poughkeepsie didn't return because he died about 6 years after he arrived there. However his wife came home, but only for a short holiday to pick up her share of a sum left in a will to her (when her brother died) and then returned, bringing up their surviving child. The son who survived had at least five children whose ancestors, as far as I know, are all still in the USA.