{"id":18318,"date":"2024-03-23T12:53:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T17:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=17845"},"modified":"2024-03-23T12:53:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T17:53:59","slug":"no-release-of-dower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/23\/no-release-of-dower\/","title":{"rendered":"No Release of Dower?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A relative, John Herbert, purchased property in Illinois in the 1850s from his wife&#8217;s parents. He sold it on 4 March 1861 to his wife&#8217;s brother. There is no &#8220;release of dower&#8221; signed by the wife, which is typical for the time period and location. I do know that by 1870 he was married to another wife and family tradition is that he was a widower before he married again. There are no death records in Illinois for the time period in question. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since normally a wife would have signed a release of dower on a deed in Illinois in the 1860, it seems reasonable that John&#8217;s wife was dead by the time the deed was executed on 4 March 1861. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A relative, John Herbert, purchased property in Illinois in the 1850s from his wife&#8217;s parents. He sold it on 4 March 1861 to his wife&#8217;s brother. There is no &#8220;release of dower&#8221; signed by the wife, which is typical for the time period and location. I do know that by 1870 he was married to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18318","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=18318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}