{"id":3729,"date":"2016-12-08T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T01:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3729"},"modified":"2016-12-08T02:57:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T02:57:35","slug":"schwantje-ehmen-sells-some-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3729","title":{"rendered":"Schwantje Ehmen Sells Some Property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/schwantje-land.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3730\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/schwantje-land.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"481\" height=\"97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/schwantje-land.jpg 481w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/schwantje-land-300x60.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Tonjes Jurgens Ehmen <a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3726\">wrote his will in 1864<\/a>, it appeared as if his wife, Schwantje, was living in Germany. There was no clear reference in Tonjes&#8217; probate paper indicating she immigrated to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently by late 1875\u00a0Schwantje was in the United States as she appears as the grantee on a deed referenced in the 3 January 1876 issue of the <em>Quincy Daily Whig<\/em>. \u00a0The property in question was in the town of Keokuk Junction, Adams, Illinois (currently known as Golden). I&#8217;m not entirely certain yet that this Schwantje is mine&#8211;more work needs to be done.<\/p>\n<p>But it seems pretty likely this is her. The chance that there is\u00a0<em>another<\/em> Schwantje Ehmen who was selling property to Jurgen T. Ehmen (one of Tonjes Jurgen Ehmen&#8217;s) besides Jurgen T. Ehmen&#8217;s mother is fairly slim.<\/p>\n<p>None of Jurgen T. Ehmen&#8217;s brothers married a woman named Schwantje so the grantee on this deed is not his sister-in-law either. Jurgen T. Ehmen did have a sister, but her name was Antje T. Ehmen. Antje is not a diminutive for Schwantje&#8211;they are separate names. And Antje was married to Anton Sievers by 1864 anyway.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note<\/em>: This newspaper clipping was located on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/?utm_source=9378&amp;utm_medium=gbhp_text&amp;utm_campaign=affil&amp;kbid=9378&amp;m=3\">GenealogyBank<\/a><\/em>. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/affiliates.genealogybank.com\/b.aspx?id=9378&amp;mm=3\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Tonjes Jurgens Ehmen wrote his will in 1864, it appeared as if his wife, Schwantje, was living in Germany. There was no clear reference in Tonjes&#8217; probate paper indicating she immigrated to the United States. Apparently by late 1875\u00a0Schwantje was in the United States as she appears as the grantee on a deed referenced [&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":[288,289],"class_list":["post-3729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-schwantje-bless-ehmen","tag-tonjes-jurgens-ehmen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729","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=3729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}