Her devoted husband, having served the Emperor's purpose, had been recalled to Berlin, where, bereft of the Kaiser's favour, he predeceased her by about six months, broken-hearted, but in utter ignorance of that foul plot carried out under his very nose and in his own castle.
"The Secrets of Potsdam"
William Le Queux
Frau Haydn looked to spend her last years in a "widow's home" provided for her by the generosity of her husband, but she predeceased him by nine years, dying at Baden, near Vienna, on the 20th of March 1800. With this simple statement of facts we may finally dismiss a matter that is best left to silence-to where "beyond these voices there is peace."
"Haydn"
J. Cuthbert Hadden
Also, if a son predeceased his father but left a child, that child would succeed to the father's land in the same way that the deceased would have.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly