{"id":17650,"date":"2024-02-12T06:47:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T12:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=17650"},"modified":"2024-02-12T06:47:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T12:47:07","slug":"aged-82-at-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/aged-82-at-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Aged 82 at Death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> The tombstone said my relative died on the 4th of February in 1882 at the age of 82. A distant relative concluded that the relative was born on 4 February 1800. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s probably not what was meant when the tombstone gave her age. Likely the age, if it was even correct, was the age she turned at her most recent birthday. It&#8217;s possible she died on her birthday, but there&#8217;s an even better chance that she did not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the relative was truly 82 when she died on 4 February 1882, then she could have been born between:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>5 February 1799&#8211;if she would have turned 83 on 5 February 1882.<\/li><li>4 February 1800&#8211;if she turned 82 on 4 February 1882.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s assuming her family knew her actual age. That&#8217;s assuming the stonecutter got the correct information. All of this is conditional on the legibility of the stone as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tombstone said my relative died on the 4th of February in 1882 at the age of 82. A distant relative concluded that the relative was born on 4 February 1800. That&#8217;s probably not what was meant when the tombstone gave her age. Likely the age, if it was even correct, was the age she [&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-17650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17650","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=17650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}