{"id":15227,"date":"2016-06-22T10:33:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T14:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=15227"},"modified":"2017-02-03T12:06:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T17:06:20","slug":"every-obituary-tells-a-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/every-obituary-tells-a-story.html","title":{"rendered":"Every Obituary Tells a Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every obituary gives us more information about our relatives and often the details and clues we need to better understand their lives and where they lived.<\/p>\n

\"Obituaries,<\/a>
Evening Post (New York, New York), 16 September 1846, page 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Look at all the details provided in these brief obituaries:<\/p>\n

Thomas Ward<\/strong> died on 14 September 1846 at age 39 and was \u201ca native of County Cavan, Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rudolph Yenni<\/strong> died at age 57 and was from Switzerland. \u201cFor many years a resident of this city.\u201d<\/p>\n

Louisa Starr<\/strong> was the \u201cdaughter of James G. and Ann Maria Barbour, and grand-daughter of Charles Starr, Esq.\u201d She was \u201caged 10 months and 8 days.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thomas L. Hartness<\/strong>, age 37, died in Albany, New York, on 13 September 1846 but was \u201cof Jersey City.\u201d<\/p>\n

Philip Halsey<\/strong> died on 4 September 1846 at Windsor, Connecticut, at age 86. He was \u201ca Revolutionary pensioner. He belonged to a Long Island regiment, and at the time of the evacuation of New York, was one of the last who left the city.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deacon Champion Spalling<\/strong> died 7 September 1846 at Whitesboro, Oneida County, New York, at age 93. He was \u201camong the militia men of Connecticut, he hastened to the scenes of Saratoga and assisted at the taking of Burgoyne.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conerod Elisk<\/strong>, age 86, died on 12 September 1846 in Frankfort, Herkimer County, New York. \u201cHe was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and fought at the battle of Oriskany, and was in several other engagements.\u201d<\/p>\n

Samuel O. Parker<\/strong> died at age 23 \u201cat the mouth of the Rio Grande\u201d on 13 September 1846. He was the \u201cson of the late Cortland L. Parker, of Perth Amboy, N.J.\u201d<\/p>\n

Isaac Smith, Esq.<\/strong> \u201cformerly of the firm of Dana & Smith\u201d died in Portland, Maine, at age 62. \u201cHis death was occasioned by a fall from a carriage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boon Buchanan<\/strong> \u201caged 113 years, a colored man, better known as \u2018Old Booty,\u2019 died at the Poor House of Washington County, Pennsylvania. \u201cHe was a waiter in the army at Braddock\u2019s defeat, the year 1755.\u201d<\/p>\n

Every obituary tells a story and adds to the legacy of every person who has ever lived. GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a> contain more than two billion records of our ancestors.<\/p>\n

Dig in and find them \u2013 don\u2019t let your ancestors\u2019 stories be lost.
\nFind them, document them and preserve them.
\nDo it now.<\/p>\n

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