{"id":1226,"date":"2016-12-22T10:55:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T17:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2016-12-22T10:57:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T17:57:49","slug":"finishing-up-for-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=1226","title":{"rendered":"Finishing Up for 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/122216_1755_FinishingUp1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"103\" height=\"86\" align=\"left\" \/>I am closing out another research year. For the last twelve months I have researched the life of my blacksmith great-great grandfather, Thomas Sherman. I have learned about his life and written up my findings for distribution to my family. For wider dissemination of the information I have gathered, I have put all the names, dates, and places into the family tree on Family Search (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.familysearch.org\">www.familysearch.org<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>During the year I learned that Thomas, like many in the nineteenth century, moved around a bit, as evidenced by these life events:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Born 23 November 1841 in Ohio,<\/li>\n<li>Grew to manhood in Kentucky, and learned the blacksmith trade from his father, Daniel Sherman,<\/li>\n<li>Married his first wife, fathered his first child, and registered for the Civil War draft in Johnson County, Indiana,<\/li>\n<li>Married twice more and fathered five more children in eastern Illinois,<\/li>\n<li>Died 3 February 1912 at Charleston, Illinois.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A big mystery still not answered from my research this year is the identity of his first wife. Next year I plan to continue with the Sherman research in an effort to discover who she may have been. I do have a name and place to go on\u2014Katherine Stillenbaugh\/Stanabaugh of Indianapolis, Indiana. Family lore says she immigrated from Germany.<\/p>\n<p>I would just love to place this woman, my great-great grandmother, into her birth family. I plan a trip to Germany in 2017, and it would be wonderful to know more about her by then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am closing out another research year. For the last twelve months I have researched the life of my blacksmith great-great grandfather, Thomas Sherman. I have learned about his life and written up my findings for distribution to my family. For wider dissemination of the information I have gathered, I have put all the names, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy","category-sherman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","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=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1229,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}