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<\/a>After a train ride, the two brothers took \u201ca buggy across the country to Sardis\u201d where they saw the grave where their ancestor was buried in 1860.<\/p>\n
Today, a gravestone marks the spot where John Hames was buried. The 1910 newspaper article stated that \u201chis grave will be properly marked\u201d by the visiting brothers to honor their ancestor. What\u2019s there now is a standard military gravestone supplied by the government. Did the two brothers arrange for it to be placed in the cemetery?<\/p>\n Reading further into the old newspaper article about the brother\u2019s gravesite visit, we find that when John Hames died he was known as the oldest man in the country: 108 years old.<\/p>\n Look at all the family history we learn from this one newspaper article:<\/p>\n As this one historical newspaper article shows, newspapers provide information about your ancestors you can\u2019t find anywhere else. More than just the names and dates you can get from other genealogy records, newspapers tell stories about the experiences your ancestors had, the people they met, and the times they lived in\u2014these family stories help you get to know them as real people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So few family stories are passed down and preserved by folks today. People are busy earning a living and dealing with the demands of 21st century lives. In addition, many families now find themselves spread across the country. It can be difficult for the rising generation to hear the old family stories from their grandparents. […]<\/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":[1902,2981,2976,2986,2993,2987,2975,1129,1658,2233,1762,2988,884,427,1758,15,2973,2971,2984,465,2191,4741,5325,5351,2991,1593,2980,2968,2989,2982,1615,1070,2020,27,2990,5370,5426,5430,441,2979,2972,2983,5439,2978,2992,2974,2985,2977],"class_list":["post-2681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-american-revolutionary-war","tag-beemer","tag-charity-jasper","tag-charles-hames","tag-cherokee-chiefs","tag-connasauga-river","tag-d-c-hames","tag-family","tag-family-history-2","tag-family-research","tag-father","tag-fort-desoto","tag-ga","tag-georgia","tag-grandfather","tag-graves","tag-gravestones","tag-hames","tag-hamlet-c-hames","tag-historical-newspapers","tag-history","tag-howard","tag-indian","tag-james","tag-james-vann","tag-jasper","tag-john-beemer","tag-john-hames","tag-john-howard-payne","tag-john-shannon","tag-marietta","tag-military","tag-newspaper-archives","tag-newspapers","tag-payne","tag-people","tag-records","tag-research","tag-revolutionary-war","tag-revolutionary-war-veterans","tag-sardis","tag-shannon","tag-son","tag-tilton","tag-vann","tag-w-j-m-hames","tag-william-hames","tag-william-jasper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681","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=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>\n
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