{"id":9720,"date":"2020-02-09T15:27:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T15:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9720"},"modified":"2024-05-14T22:03:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T22:03:08","slug":"a-rough-rider-in-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9720","title":{"rendered":"A Rough Rider in the Family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\nWhile I have more than my share of colorful relatives, it’s not often that I find one that has a connection some well-known historical group. Such is the case with Heye Albers who was in the First United States Cavalry in the Spanish-American War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teddy Roosevelt’s “Rough Riders” were actually the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry. There is no indication on his records that this unit was the “Rough Riders.” \u00a0Little did I know until recently that I had a relative in this unit. The discovery that Albers’ unit was famous was made by performing a simple Google search for the unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heye’s index card provided minimal information on his service. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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General Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers who Served During the War with Spain<\/em>. Microfilm publication M871, 126 rolls. Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, 1780s\u20131917, Record Group 94. Obtained on Ancestry.com <\/em><\/a>19 December 2012.  <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

There is a little more information on Heye’s service on the Application for Headstone or Marker (the actual card was located on Ancestry.com<\/a><\/em>) which was completed by his widow. Apparently the information was validated given all the various marks on the application card as shown below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963 <\/em>card for Heye L. Albers-obtained at Ancestry.com <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There will be more information on Heye at the National Archives–his actual service record and perhaps a pension. I’m not certain how much more information on Heye I will actually obtain as he’s not that close of a relative. One does have to rein in how much one spends on researching the extended family. But it was interesting to find a family member with a connection to Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heye L. Albers (1872-1947) is buried in Albuquerque, New Mexico (reference on FindaGrave<\/em><\/a>). He (like me) is a descendant of Jurgen Ehmen Tonjes who died in Ostfriesland, Gemany, in 1850).\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I have more than my share of colorful relatives, it’s not often that I find one that has a connection some well-known historical group. Such is the case with Heye Albers who was in the First United States Cavalry in the Spanish-American War. Teddy Roosevelt’s “Rough Riders” were actually the 1st United States Volunteer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9720","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\/9720","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=9720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11156,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9720\/revisions\/11156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}