{"id":359,"date":"2010-08-19T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=359"},"modified":"2024-07-30T14:03:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T18:03:44","slug":"two-bits-four-bits-six-bits-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/two-bits-four-bits-six-bits-dollar.html","title":{"rendered":"Two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar …"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar, all who love obits stand up and holler!”<\/em><\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

That is probably not the way you heard that cheer – but genealogists sure do love obituaries<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I came across this obituary for Louise Cloutier (1789-1889)<\/a>.\"Daily<\/a> It was published in the 13 November 1889 issue of the Daily Inter-Ocean<\/em> newspaper<\/a>. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Born in Canada in 1789, she died 100 years later in Chicago<\/a>. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Click here to read the entire obituary<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

What information and clues do we get from this obituary?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Name<\/span><\/strong>
\n2. Place and year of birth<\/span><\/strong>
\n3. Name of the cemetery<\/span><\/strong>
\n4. Date & place of the funeral & burial<\/span><\/strong>
\n5. Names of her 3 living children – where they lived and their position in the birth order of the children<\/span><\/strong>
\n6. Names of the towns where she had lived & how long she lived there<\/span><\/strong>
\n7. Age of husband at his death and how long ago that was<\/span><\/strong>
\n8. Details on the longevity of her father (110 years) and grandfather (90 years)<\/span><\/strong>
\n9. Count of her descendants – by generation<\/span><\/strong>
\n10. Best of all: her picture as rendered in a wood-cut engraving. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

GenealogyBank<\/span><\/a> your best<\/em> source for old newspapers on the planet!<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
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“Two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar, all who love obits stand up and holler!” That is probably not the way you heard that cheer – but genealogists sure do love obituaries. I came across this obituary for Louise Cloutier (1789-1889). It was published in the 13 November 1889 issue of the Daily Inter-Ocean […]<\/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":[1150,4,483,6,1153,5302,9,1762,1758,5323,5355,1038,1149,5459],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-baseball","tag-birth","tag-bobby-thomson","tag-celebrities","tag-chicago","tag-death","tag-famous-people","tag-father","tag-grandfather","tag-husband","tag-long","tag-newspaper","tag-sports","tag-wood"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","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=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99913,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/99913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}