{"id":1039,"date":"2009-02-24T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/lucky-21\/"},"modified":"2013-07-12T16:22:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T21:22:34","slug":"lucky-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/lucky-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Randy over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geneamusings.com\/\">Genea-Musings<\/a> asks: Who is #21 on your Ahnentafel list?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sarah Jane WARD<\/strong>, my second great-grandmother, was born in April 1875 in Illinois to Bridget and ?? Ward.\u00a0 She married Timothy J McMAHON about 1899.\u00a0 He was born on 14 May 1874 in Chicago.\u00a0 Together they had two children:\u00a0 John Ward McMAHON (b. 7 April 1902 in Chicago) and Timothy G McMAHON (b. 17 March 1904 in Chicago).\u00a0 John is my great-grandfather.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know too much about Sarah.\u00a0 Her and Timothy lived and raised their children in Chicago.\u00a0 She died on 29 December 1939, just a few months after Timothy, who died on 14 October.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s ironic is that I was working on this line yesterday.\u00a0 Okay, I was working on several lines yesterday as I searched the Cook County birth and marriage records on <a href=\"http:\/\/familysearch.com\/\">FamilySearch<\/a>.\u00a0 I found her son&#8217;s Timothy&#8217;s birth certificate (I already had John&#8217;s).\u00a0 Then I spent some time trying to figure out her mother&#8217;s maiden name and her father&#8217;s first name.\u00a0 I have some leads but need to track down some records before I can go any further.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if Randy would have picked #23, I could have written a book!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randy over at Genea-Musings asks: Who is #21 on your Ahnentafel list? Sarah Jane WARD, my second great-grandmother, was born in April 1875 in Illinois to Bridget and ?? Ward.\u00a0 She married Timothy J McMAHON about 1899.\u00a0 He was born on 14 May 1874 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,26],"tags":[322,344,392],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genblog","category-personal-research","tag-family-mcmahon","tag-family-ward","tag-location-us-illinois","cat-25-id","cat-26-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-gL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4196,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions\/4196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}