{"id":11311,"date":"2020-02-17T09:17:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T15:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=11311"},"modified":"2020-02-17T09:17:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T15:17:44","slug":"was-there-another-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/17\/was-there-another-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Was There Another Marriage?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My great-grandfather&#8217;s brother and his wife are buried together and have a joint tombstone in a rural Illinois cemetery. They were in their late seventies or early eighties when they died. I easily located his death certificate and other information on him, using the death date on his tombstone as a starting point. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had some difficulty with the wife who had survived him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The difficulty stopped when I located a newspaper reference their son where it referred to his &#8220;mother&#8221; with a different last name. She had married after her husband&#8217;s death. The tombstone does not mention this and it was not one of those things Grandma told me before she passed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The marriage took place in the 1940s&#8211;just where I&#8217;m not certain. It easily could have been out of state in a location I had never thought to look. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lessons and reminders:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Never assume someone doesn&#8217;t have &#8220;one more marriage.&#8221;<\/li><li>Don&#8217;t ignore any newspaper reference&#8211;even ones to seemingly innocuous social events. <\/li><li>Tombstones don&#8217;t tell you everything. <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My great-grandfather&#8217;s brother and his wife are buried together and have a joint tombstone in a rural Illinois cemetery. They were in their late seventies or early eighties when they died. I easily located his death certificate and other information on him, using the death date on his tombstone as a starting point. I had [&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-11311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11311","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=11311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}