{"id":9431,"date":"2015-01-20T16:48:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T16:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=9431"},"modified":"2024-03-08T14:15:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T19:15:20","slug":"your-wife-she-just-might-save-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/your-wife-she-just-might-save-your-life.html","title":{"rendered":"Your Wife \u2013 She Just Might Save Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marriages create life. They connect family trees and create orchards of ancestors.<\/p>\n<p>And sometimes your wife pulls you out of a snowbank.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9432\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9432\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/idaho-daily-statesman-newspaper-0218-1898-abram-decker-rescue.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9432\" title=\"idaho-daily-statesman-newspaper-0218-1898-abram-decker-rescue\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/idaho-daily-statesman-newspaper-0218-1898-abram-decker-rescue.png\" alt=\"Saved by His Wife: Decker Was Caught in the Big Snowstorm, Idaho Daily Statesman newspaper article 18 February 1898\" width=\"299\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/idaho-daily-statesman-newspaper-0218-1898-abram-decker-rescue.png 299w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/idaho-daily-statesman-newspaper-0218-1898-abram-decker-rescue-148x300.png 148w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Idaho Daily Statesman (Boise, Idaho), 18 February 1898, page 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That was the case for Abram Decker, 35, of Sussex County, New Jersey, in 1898.<\/p>\n<p>The Idaho Daily Statesman reports that Decker went to town late one night for groceries in bad weather, and didn\u2019t return.\u00a0Because they lived far from Newton, what should have been a simple trip for groceries became dangerous due to the distance and the freezing weather.<\/p>\n<p>Patient but worried, his wife waited until early the next morning to go out and search for him; she feared the worst as she fought her way \u201cthrough snow drifts in some places 15 feet deep.\u201d The Statesman reports that when she found a single foot sticking out of the snow, Abram\u2019s wife identified her frozen husband and saved his life by building a large fire to warm him and bring neighbors to their aid. Decker had collapsed from exhaustion, overtaken by the distance and weather. Thankfully his loving wife saved him from certain doom.<\/p>\n<p>Genealogy is not just the births, marriages, and deaths; it\u2019s the in-between that truly connects us to our ancestors. Stories like Abram Decker\u2019s brave wife often fail to be passed down in the family \u2013 but they really are memorable and should be preserved.<\/p>\n<p>GenealogyBank helps preserve the color and details that fill in our ancestors\u2019 lives. Family stories like this and many others in our archive are waiting to be found. Sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/\">GenealogyBank<\/a> today and add color to your family tree.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/angela-cavallo-saves-her-sons-life-with-her-supermom-strength.html\">Angela Cavallo Saves Her Son\u2019s Life with Her Supermom Strength<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/family-history-fact-finding-true-family-stories-in-newspapers.html\">Family History Fact Finding: True Family Stories in Newspapers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/sinking-of-the-athenia-mythical-family-survival-story-proves-to-be-reality.html\">Sinking of the \u2018Athenia\u2019: Mythical Family Survival Story Proves to Be Reality<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marriages create life. They connect family trees and create orchards of ancestors. And sometimes your wife pulls you out of a snowbank. That was the case for Abram Decker, 35, of Sussex County, New Jersey, in 1898. The Idaho Daily Statesman reports that Decker went to town late one night for groceries in bad weather, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[830,8713,1658,2233,12,465,432,2020,27,2294,836,8712],"class_list":["post-9431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-abram-decker","tag-decker","tag-family-history-2","tag-family-research","tag-genealogy","tag-historical-newspapers","tag-new-jersey","tag-newspaper-archives","tag-newspapers","tag-newton","tag-nj","tag-sussex-county"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9431","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=9431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98079,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9431\/revisions\/98079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}