{"id":9134,"date":"2019-08-21T13:58:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T13:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9134"},"modified":"2019-08-21T13:58:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T13:58:47","slug":"other-side-of-the-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9134","title":{"rendered":"Other Side of the Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\nThere&#8217;s often more to a tombstone than just one side. This picture of the tombstone for my great-grandparents is slightly misleading, especially to someone unfamiliar with the family.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mimka_tjode-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mimka_tjode.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mimka_tjode-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mimka_tjode-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption> <br>Mimka J. and Tjode Anna tombstone, Moss Ridge Cemetery, Carthage, Hancock County, Illinois. Photograph taken summer of 2004 by Michael John Neill <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nThere is an apparent flag adjacent to the tombstone which appears to be next to Mimka&#8217;s side of the stone. Flags are usually placed on a grave to indicate military service and an unsuspecting user of the photograph may conclude that Mimka was in the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His son Edward was. The stone is in the center of the Habben graves. Edward and his wife&#8217;s inscriptions are on the reverse side of the stone. The flag was placed on the grave to acknowledge Edward&#8217;s military service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is always a good idea to photograph the entire stone and remember that there could easily be something on the &#8220;other side.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And don&#8217;t jump to conclusions.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s often more to a tombstone than just one side. This picture of the tombstone for my great-grandparents is slightly misleading, especially to someone unfamiliar with the family. There is an apparent flag adjacent to the tombstone which appears to be next to Mimka&#8217;s side of the stone. Flags are usually placed on a grave [&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-9134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9134","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=9134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}