{"id":89,"date":"2008-10-10T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2024-08-16T10:19:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T14:19:28","slug":"woman-struck-blind-on-seeing-her-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/woman-struck-blind-on-seeing-her-son.html","title":{"rendered":"Woman struck blind on seeing her son …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obituaries can give us the details of our ancestor’s lives that we just don’t find anywhere else. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Today I found this obituary in GenealogyBank<\/a> for Judith Tormey (1800-1898) who died in Newark, NJ.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Baltimore<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Baltimore Sun<\/em> 4 July 1898<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n

This obituary article gives us lots of details and clues to fill in the family tree. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1. Mrs. Judith Tormey – her name and tells us that she was married<\/span><\/strong>
\n2. Died on Friday night at her home and then gives the exact street address<\/span><\/strong>
\n3. She has “lived in Newark since 1847”<\/span><\/strong>
\n4. “She was born in County Cavan, Ireland, in 1800”<\/strong><\/span>
\n5. “Her father (not named) was 101 years old when he died and her mother was ninety-nine”<\/span><\/strong>
\n6. “A grandmother died at the age of ninety-nine”<\/span><\/strong>
\n7. “She was the mother of five children”<\/span><\/strong>
\n8. “She lost her sight in 1894”<\/span><\/strong>
\n9. “In that year her son Edward died” <\/span><\/strong>
\n10. She was blind from the final moment “she was taking a farewell look at his face in the coffin”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Incredible – we learn not only about four generations of the family – but also the dramatic story of how she became blind in the last years of her life. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

GenealogyBank<\/a> has millions of obituaries from over 3,700 newspapers.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWe add even<\/strong> <\/span>more every day. <\/strong><\/span>
\nClick here and search GenealogyBank right now<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

What will you find?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obituaries can give us the details of our ancestor’s lives that we just don’t find anywhere else. Today I found this obituary in GenealogyBank for Judith Tormey (1800-1898) who died in Newark, NJ. Baltimore Sun 4 July 1898 This obituary article gives us lots of details and clues to fill in the family tree. 1. […]<\/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":[1808,1028,491,1878,835,1129,1656,1762,1661,5197,1674,1829,497,5354,1761,1874,1839,1038,27,836,1084,1068,5439,494],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-ancestor","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-sun","tag-center","tag-county-cavan","tag-family","tag-family-tree","tag-father","tag-genealogybank-2","tag-grandmother","tag-id","tag-in","tag-ireland","tag-life","tag-mother","tag-ms","tag-newark","tag-newspaper","tag-newspapers","tag-nj","tag-obituaries","tag-obituary","tag-son","tag-us"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","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=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100219,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/100219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}