{"id":4851,"date":"2017-05-29T23:05:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T23:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4851"},"modified":"2017-05-29T23:05:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T23:05:34","slug":"ancestral-clues-and-connections-clark-sargent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4851","title":{"rendered":"Ancestral Clues and Connections: Clark Sargent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clark Sargent was born in Vermont in 1805 and probably died in Winnebago County, Illinois, in the late 1840s. Some things I&#8217;ve learned about research from Clark:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>your children&#8217;s pension files may shed light on you.\u00a0<\/em>A great deal was learned about Clark&#8217;s life in the Civil War pension file of his daughter.<\/li>\n<li><em>copiers will copy<\/em>. There is no hard proof of when Clark died, but it was referenced in one genealogy and has been reprinted numerous times.<\/li>\n<li><em>dying young impacts your family<\/em>. Clark&#8217;s wife died within a few years of his death and the children were raised by their step-father as Clark and his wife had moved a significant distance from their immediate families.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?page_id=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?page_id%3D2&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1494697894038000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEf9g_7pi4nxUPTyRY1p0WsWwDZfg\">My ancestor table<\/a> can be viewed on my site. Clark is my 3rd great-grandfather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clark Sargent was born in Vermont in 1805 and probably died in Winnebago County, Illinois, in the late 1840s. Some things I&#8217;ve learned about research from Clark: your children&#8217;s pension files may shed light on you.\u00a0A great deal was learned about Clark&#8217;s life in the Civil War pension file of his daughter. copiers will copy. [&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":[311],"class_list":["post-4851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ancestral-clues-and-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851","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=4851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}