{"id":135,"date":"2009-02-21T09:18:57","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T14:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=135"},"modified":"2009-03-31T19:24:03","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T00:24:03","slug":"wessyngton-discoveries-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/wessyngton-discoveries-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Wessyngton Discoveries Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While in Evansville, IN a few weeks ago I had the pleasure of meeting a new cousin, Mildred Moore Robinson.\u00a0 When she saw my book cover she was very surprised and told me that she had the same picture in an old album.\u00a0 It turned out that the photograph she had was an original and had my great-great-grandfather&#8217;s name (Emanuel Washington)\u00a0written on the back of it.\u00a0 He he had paid forty cents for the photograph which was nearly a day&#8217;s pay.\u00a0 The photo had been passed to his daughter Martha Washington White, who was Ms. Robinson&#8217;s maternal grandmother.\u00a0 I was honored when Cousin Mildred gave me the photograph.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_137\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-137\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137\" title=\"Wessyngton 1891\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/emanuelhenny-allen-and-granville-washington-1891-300x253.jpg\" alt=\"Original 1891 Wessyngton Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/emanuelhenny-allen-and-granville-washington-1891-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/emanuelhenny-allen-and-granville-washington-1891.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Original 1891 Wessyngton Photo<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in Evansville, IN a few weeks ago I had the pleasure of meeting a new cousin, Mildred Moore Robinson.\u00a0 When she saw my book cover she was very surprised and told me that she had the same picture in an old album.\u00a0 It turned out that the photograph she had was an original and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,20],"tags":[72,71,73,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}