{"id":1994,"date":"2016-02-01T05:12:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T05:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2016-02-01T05:12:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T05:12:21","slug":"kirkham-civil-war-pension-file-not-at-nara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1994","title":{"rendered":"Kirkham Civil War Pension File Not At NARA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was fortunate that Reka Behrens (born around 1870 in Adams County, Illinois) the daughter of Volke (Behrens) Sartorius married a Civil War veteran. That means her<a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1934\"> widow&#8217;s pension <\/a>may contain some information about her date of birth and perhaps some testimony from one of her relatives about something related to her early life.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not her veteran husband that I&#8217;m really interested in. \u00a0I realize there&#8217;s always the potential that something in his application will help me research Reka, but I&#8217;m not holding my breath.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s unfortunate about a woman being born in 1870 marrying a Civil War veteran is that she lived until 1960. This means her pension is not at the National Archives because her death is, somewhat recent.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was fortunate that Reka Behrens (born around 1870 in Adams County, Illinois) the daughter of Volke (Behrens) Sartorius married a Civil War veteran. That means her widow&#8217;s pension may contain some information about her date of birth and perhaps some testimony from one of her relatives about something related to her early life. Or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}