{"id":1080,"date":"2016-07-21T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2016-07-21T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T17:46:00","slug":"most-people-but-not-mine-owned-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=1080","title":{"rendered":"Most People (But Not Mine!) Owned Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/072116_1745_MostPeopleB1.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>This week I spent my research time looking at land records for Illinois. My ancestor Thomas Sherman lived there from about 1870, and many of these records are online at Family Search (https:\/\/familysearch.org). I hoped to find some mention of his second wife, Mary. Unfortunately, I found no record of land ownership for him in the records I could search from home.\n<\/p>\n<p>Thomas worked as an itinerant blacksmith for most of his life. After the Civil War, he lived in the following places:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1870 \u2013 Baldwinsville, Hunter Township, Edgar County, Illinois\n<\/li>\n<li>1872 \u2013 Logan, Brouiletts Creek Township, Edgar County, Illinois\n<\/li>\n<li>1880 \u2013 Edgar Township, Illinois\n<\/li>\n<li>1881 \u2013 East Nelson Township, Moultrie County, Illinois\n<\/li>\n<li>1884 \u2013 Mattoon, Coles County, Illinois\n<\/li>\n<li>1887 \u2013 Nelson, Coles County, Illinois\n<\/li>\n<li>1889 \u2013 Johnstown, Cumberland County, Illinois\n<\/li>\n<li>1891 \u2013 Janesville, Cumberland County, Illinois\n<\/li>\n<li>1900 \u2013 Morgan Township, Coles County, Illinois\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to the U.S census, Thomas owned no real estate in 1870, but by 1900 he owned a home. From the land records available to me for the intervening years, I can conclude that normally he did not own land. I can still look at a few of the records not yet available online, but I do not expect to find anything.\n<\/p>\n<p>Thomas probably was a man who followed the work, owning just his personal property and blacksmith tools. His family led a nomadic life. The rich information sometimes found in our ancestors&#8217; land records is not available for Thomas Sherman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I spent my research time looking at land records for Illinois. My ancestor Thomas Sherman lived there from about 1870, and many of these records are online at Family Search (https:\/\/familysearch.org). I hoped to find some mention of his second wife, Mary. Unfortunately, I found no record of land ownership for him in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sherman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}