{"id":94,"date":"2017-04-01T02:16:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T02:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/?page_id=94"},"modified":"2019-05-17T21:42:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T21:42:41","slug":"william-washington-lance-ancestor-10","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/?page_id=94","title":{"rendered":"Ancestor 10 &#8211; William Washington Lance"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_180\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/will_dora_lance-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/will_dora_lance-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/will_dora_lance.jpg 713w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will and Dora<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My, my, what big ears you have! \u00a0When William H Washington Lance was born on September 21, 1855, in Upshur, West Virginia, his father, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/?page_id=369\">Jacob Lance<\/a>, was 24 and his mother, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/?page_id=372\">Sena Post<\/a>, was 22.\u00a0 Unfortunately, William was only 7 years old when his father was shot in 1862.\u00a0 Will was likely raised by his mother with presumably help from both families.<\/p>\n<p>He married <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/?page_id=97\">Medora &#8220;Dora&#8221; Emma Armstrong<\/a> on October 7, 1880, in Upshur County. They had five children in 10 years &#8211; all girls!\u00a0 In order of birth:\u00a0 Carrie, Grace, Cora Marie, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/?page_id=79\">Reka<\/a>, and Lelah.<\/p>\n<p>William was a farmer and managed well enough to have a sizable property in Meade District of Upshur County with a beautiful Victorian style home.\u00a0 William and Dora did well enough that her parents lived with them in their later years.\u00a0 There are lots of family reunion photos that tell the story of a loving and close family.<\/p>\n<p>He died in 1936 in Upshur, West Virginia, at the age of 81, and was buried in Point Pleasant Cemetery in Abbott near their home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My, my, what big ears you have! \u00a0When William H Washington Lance was born on September 21, 1855, in Upshur, West Virginia, his father, Jacob Lance, was 24 and his mother, Sena Post, was 22.\u00a0 Unfortunately, William was only 7 years old when his father was shot in 1862.\u00a0 Will was likely raised by his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/?page_id=94\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ancestor 10 &#8211; William Washington Lance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-94","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}