{"id":4252,"date":"2016-01-25T09:10:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T15:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4252"},"modified":"2016-01-25T09:10:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T15:10:55","slug":"men-were-not-always-widowed-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/25\/men-were-not-always-widowed-either\/","title":{"rendered":"Men Were Not Always Widowed Either"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/23\/not-really-widowed\/\"> earlier tip referenced women lying about their marital status <\/a>in census records. Men also gave incorrect marital status accounts to avoid mentioning their divorce. In 1900, Conrad Haase in Hancock County, Illinois&#8217; Appanoose Township, indicated he was widowed. He wasn&#8217;t. He was divorced. Always take those marital status entries with a grain of salt.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/men-do-it-too.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4253\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/men-do-it-too.jpg\" alt=\"men-do-it-too\" width=\"750\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/men-do-it-too.jpg 750w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/men-do-it-too-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/men-do-it-too-624x333.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An earlier tip referenced women lying about their marital status in census records. Men also gave incorrect marital status accounts to avoid mentioning their divorce. In 1900, Conrad Haase in Hancock County, Illinois&#8217; Appanoose Township, indicated he was widowed. He wasn&#8217;t. He was divorced. Always take those marital status entries with a grain of salt.\u00a0\u00a0<\/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-4252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252","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=4252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}