{"id":5092,"date":"2017-07-16T16:02:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T16:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5092"},"modified":"2017-07-16T16:02:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T16:02:44","slug":"paying-6-for-house-and-barn-insurance-in-1901","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5092","title":{"rendered":"Paying $6 for House and Barn Insurance in 1901"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5086\">In an earlier post<\/a>, we saw that Nancy Rampley claimed in her 1902 deposition in support of her Civil War widow&#8217;s pension that she had $360.50 in farm income. That income was offset by several expenses that were used in support of Nancy&#8217;s claim that her farm income was insufficient to support herself and her minor children.<\/p>\n<p>Nancy was splitting the income from the farm with her grown son who actually did the farm work for her. That was offset by slightly over $200 in expenses in 1902. Only two of the expenses are further documented in her application&#8211;the hired man&#8217;s pay and the property taxes. The rest are included in Nancy&#8217;s deposition and apparently the special examiner did not ask for additional documentation of their amounts.<\/p>\n<p>A summary of Nancy&#8217;s expenses from 1901:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>hiring a hired man for 6 months&#8211;$100.00<\/li>\n<li>extra help at harvest time-$22.00<\/li>\n<li>wire to repair fences&#8211;$8.00<\/li>\n<li>nail and staples for repairs&#8211;$1.00<\/li>\n<li>threshing&#8211;$8.00<\/li>\n<li>repairs to plow[s?] and wagon&#8211;$12.00<\/li>\n<li>interest paid to Mr. William House on a note&#8211;$3.60<\/li>\n<li>insurance on house and barn&#8211;$6.00<\/li>\n<li>taxes&#8211;about $30.00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5093\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/nancy-rampley-expenses1901.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"983\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/nancy-rampley-expenses1901.jpg 983w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/nancy-rampley-expenses1901-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/nancy-rampley-expenses1901-768x488.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 983px) 100vw, 983px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Transcribing these items is somewhat easier when one is reasonably familiar with farming terminology (I could see someone carelessly reading &#8220;pressing hay&#8221; as &#8220;Trespassing Hay&#8221; or something similar). There is no comment about what sort of wire (barbed wire, woven wire, etc.) was used to fix the fence. The Rampleys likely hired a threshing crew to take care of that task when the time came. In 1901 not all farm families could afford that equipment for themselves and it was labor intensive.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no mention of any seed as an expense for the crops on which Nancy reported income. And of course there are no expenses for modern conveniences such as electricity, gas, etc. I was somewhat surprised that Nancy had a hired man and had hired additional help with the farm work. I had mistakenly assumed a farm the size of hers would not need additional labor on a regular basis, but it&#8217;s important to remember that farming at the turn of the 20th century highly manually labor intensive.<\/p>\n<p>The hired man also provided testimony in Nancy&#8217;s claim. In 1901 and 1902 he was her hired man. By the spring of 1903 he was her son-in-law. Good thing for me as he&#8217;s my great-grandfather. Nancy&#8217;s daughter Fannie married the hired man.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an earlier post, we saw that Nancy Rampley claimed in her 1902 deposition in support of her Civil War widow&#8217;s pension that she had $360.50 in farm income. That income was offset by several expenses that were used in support of Nancy&#8217;s claim that her farm income was insufficient to support herself and her [&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":[316],"class_list":["post-5092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nancy-newman-rampley-civil-war-pension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092","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=5092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}