{"id":11777,"date":"2020-06-07T15:16:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T20:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=11777"},"modified":"2020-06-07T15:16:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T20:16:14","slug":"up-and-moved-and-changed-the-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/07\/up-and-moved-and-changed-the-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Up and Moved and Changed the Name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not everyone moves to where they have other family members. Sometimes people do pack up and move. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s what Emma Cawiezell of Davenport, Iowa, did in the 1890s. She went to New York City to become an actress and that&#8217;s where the twenty-something Iowa native died in 1893. Compounding the issue is the fact that she changed her name from Emma Cawiezell to Emma Davis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For some time she was &#8220;lost&#8221; and I simply assumed she had died young in Iowa and somehow missed having a death certificate and tombstone. I was wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emma&#8217;s mother also died in 1893 and several years ago I decided to see if there were other obituaries for her besides the one I had originally found. In that second obituary was a reference to Emma having died in New York City a short time before her mother died in Iowa.  That was the lead I needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s reminder number two: always get as many obituaries as you can. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"730\" height=\"436\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/emma_cawitzel_part_two.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/emma_cawitzel_part_two.jpg 730w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/emma_cawitzel_part_two-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not everyone moves to where they have other family members. Sometimes people do pack up and move. That&#8217;s what Emma Cawiezell of Davenport, Iowa, did in the 1890s. She went to New York City to become an actress and that&#8217;s where the twenty-something Iowa native died in 1893. Compounding the issue is the fact that [&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-11777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11777","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=11777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}