[or-roots] Thanks - Oregon convict - Clifford GAAR

[LinLouVan at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/23/05 3:44:46 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
jchavnar at sbcglobal.net writes:

I'm not  convinced that J.C. GARR in Washington County in 1919 is the same
person as  Clifford J. GARR in Marion County, Oregon State Penitentiary in
Salem in  1920.  

Wouldn't Washington County be jail and Marion County be  real deal prison -
and then there is the matter of J.C. vs. C.J.  - Is  not the prison system
real into exact names .....   



But think of it this way. Perhaps Clifford was his real name but for  reasons 
we will never know he preferred whichever name went with the "J".
 
I have just been researching a Civil War Veteran who married Florence C.  
Stewart.
Then in the next census, she was enumerated as C. Florence.
And she was buried as Celista F. Hamilton. 
 
And this is not the only case of people in my lines using whichever name  
made sense at the time.
 
Linda VanOrden
Junction City, OR
LinLouVan at aol.com
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