{"id":6401,"date":"2018-03-03T17:21:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T17:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6401"},"modified":"2018-03-03T18:47:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T18:47:12","slug":"john-rampley-the-well-known-kentucky-jack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6401","title":{"rendered":"John Rampley&#8211;The Well-Known Kentucky Jack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6403\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/john-rampley-bel-air-maryland-horse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/john-rampley-bel-air-maryland-horse.jpg 487w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/john-rampley-bel-air-maryland-horse-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was not what I was expecting when I searched Maryland newspapers for members of my Rampley family. Finding items in classified advertisements can be helpful as it documents a person&#8217;s existence in a time and place.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not so certain having a horse named after a relative is quite as helpful.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also not certain if the horse was named after a specific &#8220;John Rampley&#8221; or not. I&#8217;ll have to review my files as John was not one of those first names really favored by the Maryland branch of the family during this time period&#8211;James, William, and Thomas seemed more their style.<\/p>\n<p>Given the unique nature of the last name and the fact that this horse was a Harford County resident there is likely a connection between the person who named the horse and some member of the Rampley family. Maybe.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just not going to be looking for a birth certificate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This was not what I was expecting when I searched Maryland newspapers for members of my Rampley family. Finding items in classified advertisements can be helpful as it documents a person&#8217;s existence in a time and place. I&#8217;m not so certain having a horse named after a relative is quite as helpful. I&#8217;m also [&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-6401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401","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=6401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}