[or-roots] Unusual first names

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I'm reminded of two friends who "collected" unusual  first names, before 
they had home computers.  They hand wrote all the  names alphabetically in 
pencil, so they could erase & add more names.   When that got too messy, they'd 
rewrite the whole list.  I didn't  believe them until they showed us their 
lists at the Family  HIstory Center.  
 
Before my PC & copy machine, I'd hand write family group  sheets & ancestor 
charts to share with relatives.  Ooh!  I was  much younger then.  Modern 
technology can be frustrating at times, but I  wouldn't go back to the "old 
days" of genealogy.  
 
Unusual names can sometimes be a clue to ancestors but yes,  names go in 
trends.  Just look at the names  young mothers give their  children today.  
Pity the child who was named King Benjamin Peck - he went  by K. B.  Sometimes 
when a person is named  after a family member, they use their middle name.  
Nicknames also  make searching family hard.  Census enumerators had to 
guess how to spell  illiterate immigrants' names.  Some names may have been the 
parents' idea  of what career she wanted her child to achieve - setting the 
goal.  The  Peck family were in the wrong country to expect their son to 
become "King"  though.  Oh well!
 
Gerrie
 
 
 
In a message dated 6/15/2009 9:35:09 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time,  
dharguess at coastline.edu writes:

 
Once  again I have to comment on the interesting names that people gave 
their  children back in those days.  My James Ellison Howell who was born in  
Tennessee had a brother names Squire Howell.  He also named one of his  sons 
(a twin) Doctor Carswell Howell.  When I was doing the genealogy I  couldn’t 
help think that these people had delusions of grandeur but now I  think 
they must have just been fad names at the time.  Lafayette was  another common 
name at this time in history.  I must have at least six  Lafayette’s. 
Dale 
P.S.   I have friend named Zilpha that is a pretty unusual  name. 
Anthony  Moore married Zilphia Haines (daughter of Bethanah/Bethany Haines) 
in  Frederick, Virginia. They were Quakers. They moved to Tennessee. Their 
son  David Moore married "out of unity" to Margaret Sherman in Tennessee. 
This was  in the Lone Mountain area of NE Tennessee - near Grainger, Hawkins, 
Greene,  and Claiborne counties, TN. Of many kids, David Moore had two sons 
I know a  lot about : Squire Moore and Alfred Moore. Squire Moore's first 
wife was  Rebecca Capps. They are the parents of my great great grandmother 
Lucinda Jane  Moore Sumner b. About 1831 in TN. She married Samuel Sumner Jr. 
(b. Abt. 1829  Clark Co., IN) in Linn County, Missouri. After Rebecca died, 
Squire married  again to Celia Catherine Anderson Curtis and had about 5 
more kids; his second  wife already had many kids so there were about 15 
altogether. 

Many of  David Moore's children married  the children of Fielding Lewis of 
the  Lone Mt. area of TN. For example, Lucinda Moore, the youngest sister of 
Squire  and Alfred Moore married Fielding Lewis Jr. They had moved to MO 
and then left  for Oregon in 1852. On the Oregon Trail, Lucinda and three of 
her children  died. Fielding Jr. and the other children settled in Oregon. I 
have more  details if you want them.

Lucinda Jane Moore Sumner's favorite cousin  was Margaret Melissa Moore, 
daughter of Alfred Moore and Mahulda Bullard. They  are buried near each other 
in Etna Cemetery, Polk County. Lucinda's half  brother James Robinson Moore 
married Nancy Ellen McClintock and they came to  Oregon as well and lived 
near the Etna Church in Polk County. Nancy Ellen's  sister Eliza Frances 
McClintock married James Edgar, and they are buried in  Etna Cemetery as well. 
Samuel and Lucinda Jane Moore Sumner's son James Clark  Sumner married 
Lucinda Frances Tremain in Linn Co., MO; she was the daughter  of John Hardy 
Tremain and Mary Ann McClintock - a sister of Nancy Ellen and  Eliza. These 
sisters were the daughters of Findley McClintock and his wife  Nancy Sumner. "We 
are all  related."

Paulette




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