{"id":10748,"date":"2019-10-19T08:21:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T13:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10748"},"modified":"2019-10-19T08:21:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T13:21:28","slug":"x-x-x-marks-the-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/19\/x-x-x-marks-the-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"X X X Marks the Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\nAt the time her will was signed, Barbara Haase made &#8220;her mark.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/barbara_mark-705363.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10749\" width=\"537\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/barbara_mark-705363.jpg 400w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/barbara_mark-705363-300x119.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Readers should note that simply making a &#8220;mark&#8221; does not mean the person was illiterate. They might have been unable to sign or perhaps were told to &#8220;make their mark.&#8221; That&#8217;s one reason why documents such as this have witnesses. Barbara could sign her name&#8211;she did so on documents in the 1850s and 1860s in a lovely German script. Not certain why she made three marks&#8211;although she did have three husbands (or two or four, depends upon how you count). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the time her will was signed, Barbara Haase made &#8220;her mark.&#8221; Readers should note that simply making a &#8220;mark&#8221; does not mean the person was illiterate. They might have been unable to sign or perhaps were told to &#8220;make their mark.&#8221; That&#8217;s one reason why documents such as this have witnesses. Barbara could sign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}