{"id":6596,"date":"2018-04-02T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6596"},"modified":"2018-04-02T16:44:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T16:44:00","slug":"finding-an-1892-court-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6596","title":{"rendered":"Finding An 1892 Court Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written about Volke&#8217;s court case against her father before.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6597\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/frederick_behrens-780509.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/frederick_behrens-780509.jpg 522w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/frederick_behrens-780509-288x300.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/>I was hoping to find details of this case in the Adams County, Illinois, court records. It was not to be. Volke Sartorius sued her father&#8217;s estate in 1892 for money her former beau gave to her father, Ulfert Behrens, to pay for the care of Ulfert&#8217;s granddaughter, who was the daughter of the beau as well.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper account of the case goes on, at great length, making the entire situation very much like a soap opera. It goes so far as to name the father of Volke&#8217;s baby, Harm Habbus. So far, my initial searches for Harm have not located him.<\/p>\n<p><em>update: We have found the court\u00a0 records for the case to which this newspaper article refers. Stay tuned to see where they were located.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written about Volke&#8217;s court case against her father before. I was hoping to find details of this case in the Adams County, Illinois, court records. It was not to be. Volke Sartorius sued her father&#8217;s estate in 1892 for money her former beau gave to her father, Ulfert Behrens, to pay for the care [&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-6596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596","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=6596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}