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In a family tree I was looking at recently: Death. It apparently traces back to D'Aeth or something similar.
I have a friend named Death. We're all hoping that at least one of his children enters the medical profession. Or gets a PhD in any subject. Even a doctorate in economics would be cool if you could be Dr. Death.
Of course, the very best would be if one of them became a medical examiner. What prosecutor wouldn't love to call Dr. Death to the witness stand for some expert testimony?
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My maiden name. Boussneur
According to a link upthread, there are only 7 instances of the name. I know all 7 and are related. There is only one left that can carry on the last name. My nephew. My older, never married sister, and my nephew are the only ones alive that currently use that last name.
I have a whole line of cousins named Goodnight. (It's German. The original spelling was Goodnacht, I believe.)
One of my g-g-g-aunts in the 1840's married one of the brothers of Charles Goodnight, one of the most famous Goodnights in American history. (Charles was her brother-in-law.) Have you ever seen the movie or read the book "Lonesome Dove"? It is based on his life. Charlie Goodnight and his friend Oliver Loving started the Goodnight-Loving Cattle Trail in the 1860's. He also managed a 1.2 million acre cattle ranch in the Texas Panhandle.
The maiden name of one of my maternal great-grandmothers was Turnipseed. Her family was in in rural North Carolina in the 1700's and moved to the hills and hollers of the eastern Missouri Ozarks in the early 1800's.
When I was growing up, I would ask my grandmother questions about her side of the family. "A bunch of hillbillies..." she always said.
That sums it up nicely. There's no shame in my game.
Was the rural NC area the town of Wendell? Only there is a country road there by this name. And around here, I live near it, many streets are named for the farmers who owned the land at one time.
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