{"id":9508,"date":"2019-12-03T16:47:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T16:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9508"},"modified":"2024-05-14T22:22:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T22:22:41","slug":"death-bed-care-in-1869","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9508","title":{"rendered":"Death Bed Care in 1869"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This image comes from part of an expense submission by John Herbert to the estate of Michael Trautvetter, probated in Hancock County, Illinois, in 1869. Herbert&#8217;s wife was actually Michael&#8217;s niece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"122\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/michael_trautvetter_expenses-721091.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/michael_trautvetter_expenses-721091.jpg 400w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/michael_trautvetter_expenses-721091-300x92.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Herbert was allowed $4.50 per day for taking care of Trautvetter in his final illness. I&#8217;m not certain if there was a table of rates the court used or not. Interestingly enough, just for comparison, the refreshments at the wake were $4.75&#8211;just about the same as the per day allowance for care. It&#8217;s always good to put costs in perspective when possible.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image comes from part of an expense submission by John Herbert to the estate of Michael Trautvetter, probated in Hancock County, Illinois, in 1869. Herbert&#8217;s wife was actually Michael&#8217;s niece. Herbert was allowed $4.50 per day for taking care of Trautvetter in his final illness. I&#8217;m not certain if there was a table of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508","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=9508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11214,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508\/revisions\/11214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}