Fun with Names

The most unusual names among our ancestors:

Three generations of the Nash family... in the Wyant line of our ancestry:

Obediah Nash (grandpa)

Pleasant Nash (pa)

Emaline Nash Carson (I like the name, but they called her Emma)

Cuthbert Webb, who is actually a Junior to Cuthbert Senior.

Mercy Mary Fallis, who named two of her daughters Mercy and Mary, of course!

And Ralph’s brother Branson (actually a first name in five generations in the family).

And his sister Pansy, who married Bessie’s brother Paul Wyant.

And let’s not forget Absolom Davenport, the father of Lucy Davenport (he’s actually another whole generation back)

And we had some old-fashioned names, like:

Delila Webb Lane

Isaiah Lane

And two Isaac’s... Isaac S. Wyant and Isaac Fallis.

The most unusual last name was the maiden name of the wife of Harris Gammon, who was Margaret Krutsinger.

There were some unusual middle names, until you realize that they are using an old custom of using the maiden name of the mother or grandmother. For example, John Chapple Wellons, John Lewis Lane, Jacob Mulford Webb.