{"id":3703,"date":"2016-12-03T19:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3703"},"modified":"2016-12-03T18:59:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T18:59:43","slug":"civil-war-pension-announcement-in-the-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3703","title":{"rendered":"Civil War Pension Announcement in the Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pension updates for Civil War veterans were regularly published in certain newspapers throughout the United States. In some cases these names may have been published a significant distance from where the individual lived.<\/p>\n<p>This item from January of 1890 comes from an Indianapolis newspaper and contains a list of Illinois and Indiana residents who had recent action taken on their pensions.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/riley-rampley-pension-newspaper.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3704\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/riley-rampley-pension-newspaper.png\" alt=\"riley-rampley-pension-newspaper\" width=\"735\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/riley-rampley-pension-newspaper.png 735w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/riley-rampley-pension-newspaper-300x142.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The only detail that was published along with their name was their residence. I&#8217;m not completely certain what the purpose of publication was, so I&#8217;m not going to speculate. The illustration includes a reference to Riley Rampley of Hickory Ridge, Illinois&#8211;quite a distance from Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230;it&#8217;s a good reminder that a person&#8217;s name could be mentioned a distance from where they lived.<\/p>\n<p>The only reason I located this item was because I was searching for some of Riley&#8217;s Rampley cousins who happened to live in Indiana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pension updates for Civil War veterans were regularly published in certain newspapers throughout the United States. In some cases these names may have been published a significant distance from where the individual lived. This item from January of 1890 comes from an Indianapolis newspaper and contains a list of Illinois and Indiana residents who had [&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":[285,181],"class_list":["post-3703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-civil-war-pensions","tag-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703","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=3703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}