{"id":108,"date":"2008-12-22T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=108"},"modified":"2024-08-15T10:13:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T14:13:55","slug":"did-you-get-snow-bet-it-was-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/did-you-get-snow-bet-it-was-nothing.html","title":{"rendered":"Did you get snow? Bet it was nothing like the snow of 1898."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Photo:<\/a>We got snow this weekend – lots of it. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s a picture showing the snow piled on the railing of our back deck.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

But, it was nothing like the Blizzard of 1898 – with 15′ high snow drifts. <\/strong><\/span>
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\nWe found many articles about the Blizzard of 1898 in GenealogyBank<\/span><\/a> – including this one… <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Idaho<\/a>…about Abram Decker who was saved from freezing to death in the snowstorm by the persistence of his “devoted wife”. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This story was picked up and printed by the Idaho Daily Statesman<\/em>, 18 Aug 1898.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Wow, what a story. His wife searching for him through 15′ snow drifts – finally spotting his foot above the snow and her efforts to rescue him by taking the railings from a fence to build a bonfire – lit by the flame in her lantern, to keep him warm. The fire got the attention of two farmers who came to their rescue. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Now that’s an incredible family story.<\/strong><\/span>
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\nTip:<\/span> Don’t limit your search to just one state – Remember that the articles you’re looking for may have appeared in a newspaper in another state – in this example the story was picked up and printed in a paper clear across the country in Idaho. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We got snow this weekend – lots of it. Here’s a picture showing the snow piled on the railing of our back deck. But, it was nothing like the Blizzard of 1898 – with 15′ high snow drifts. We found many articles about the Blizzard of 1898 in GenealogyBank – including this one… …about Abram […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[830,807,809,5302,1129,1661,1674,1044,804,1829,1874,810,1038,489,808,462,5457],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-abram-decker","tag-chicago-marriage","tag-cook-county","tag-death","tag-family","tag-genealogybank-2","tag-id","tag-idaho","tag-idaho-daily-statesman","tag-in","tag-ms","tag-new-trier","tag-newspaper","tag-nothing","tag-oak-park","tag-tip","tag-wife"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99954,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/99954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}