Leomoon, apparently Benjamin Franklin was a notorious philanderer so in more ways than one I doubt his wife saw their marriage through rose coloured lenses.
How'd Cayce determine that a furniture tycoon in the 1800s was the reincarnation of Benjamin Franklin?
That is exactly what Cayce was known best for, reincarnation lifetimes he picked up during his self induced trance state.
The dob I used for Ben Franklin was 1/17/1706 07:00 A.M. with Capricorn Rising on the day of Saturn.
forming a grand trine with Neptune-Mars-Pluto
I'm going from my computer saved chart, because once I do a book on Cayce with charts, I never re-read them myself over the years so using memory here now.
I KNOW there are other dobs used today for Franklin on astro.com I believe, but this is one I saved and used -
His reincarnation occurred dubbed #165 - May 28th, 1877 Lyon Michigan and I used a Sunrise chart i.e. 07:00A.M. so I must not have had the tob?
Just as often as not, Cayce will give the time of birth but in this case I don't think he did. Sometimes, he even corrected it when it needed to be corrected - and I think the late astrologer & engineer, John Wilner picked up on this anomoly, and wrote 2 books about that alone as well as the difference in soul birth vs physical birth times often being a few hours off
Anyway, for me, I used these two dates - as given with a Sunrise chart for tob. Born Day of the Sun with Gemini sun sign cj. Mercury & Venus -
Ironically, having been born in Lyon Michigan struck me too, as Jungian - for I'm certain Ben Franklin in his travels to France often visited Lyon.
I've found such similarities before, such as with Joan of Arc's birth and her reincarnation's birth being the same places. Actually, her reincarnation was born in a train station in France while mother was trying to get back to the United States, but the baby didn't wait and was born in the same town as Joan was so many centuries earlier.
Sounds implausible I know, but when we consider names as simply vibrations, we get closer to the "why" of it for the souls. They "react" to certain vibrations moreso then to others.
For experimentation , Franklin died on April 17th, 1800
One of the most interesting however for me, was the rebirth of Thomas Jefferson, in Virginia Beach Va. in this century. Actually, he's still alive as far as I know. With that one, I have the exact tob for the reincarnation.