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<DIV><FONT size=3>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.</FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>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. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>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. </FONT><FONT size=3>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!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>Gerrie</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 6/15/2009 9:35:09 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
dharguess@coastline.edu writes:</DIV>
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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.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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I have friend named Zilpha that is a pretty unusual
name.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">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. <BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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."<BR><BR>Paulette<BR><BR><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>or-roots
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