{"id":6584,"date":"2018-04-01T14:46:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T14:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6584"},"modified":"2018-04-01T14:46:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T14:46:29","slug":"court-held-in-the-opera-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6584","title":{"rendered":"Court Held in the Opera House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6585\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/anne_rampley_petition.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"536\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/anne_rampley_petition.jpg 400w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/anne_rampley_petition-300x148.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/>I noticed something in a 1907 partition suit petition for Hancock County, Illinois. Court was not being held at the courthouse&#8211;it was held at the Opera House in Carthage.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I wondered about this, then I remembered that the October 1907 term of court was being held when the current courthouse was being constructed on the site of the old one.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I never thought about where they had court during that time until I ran across this reference.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed something in a 1907 partition suit petition for Hancock County, Illinois. Court was not being held at the courthouse&#8211;it was held at the Opera House in Carthage. I wondered about this, then I remembered that the October 1907 term of court was being held when the current courthouse was being constructed on the [&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-6584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584","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=6584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}