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>From my JOBE cousin in OK. This is priceless.... How are you? Freida
The Thirteen Commandments for Names:
1) Thou shalt name your male children: James, John, Jarrett, Robert,
Joseph, Abel, Richard,Thomas or William.
2) Thou shalt name your female children: Elizabeth, Mary, Martha, Maria,
Sarah, Ida, Virginia or Mae.
3) Thou shalt leave NO trace of your female children.
4) Thou shalt, after naming your childen from the above lists, never refer
to them by those names again; instead, thou shalt call them by strange
nicknames as: Ike, Eli, Polly, Dolly, Sukey.
5) Thou shalt not use any middle names on ANY legal documents or census
reports; and whenever possible, use only initials on legal documents.
6) Thou shalt learn to sign all documants illegibly so that your surname
can be spelled, or misspelled in various ways: Tipper, Topper, Hopper,
Tucker,Tapper.
7) Thou shalt, after no more than 3 generation, make sure that all family
records are lost, misplaced, burned in a court house fire, lost at sea or
buried so that NO future trace of them can be found.
8) Thou shalt propagate misleading legends, rumors and vague innuendo
regarding your place of origin.
a) You may have come from: England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales ...or
Iran.
b) You may have American Indian Ancestory of the ____tribe.
c) You MAY have descended from one of three brothers that came over
from _____.
9) Thou shalt leave no cemetery records, headstones or headstones with
legible names; nor will any of the dates thereon match those in public
records.
10) Thou shalt leave no family bible with records of birth, marriage or
death.
11) Thou shalt ALWAYS flip thy name around. If born James Albert, thou
must make the rest of thy records in the name of Albert, AJ, JA, AL, Bert,
Bart
or Fred.
12) Thou must also flip thy parents names around when making reference to
them, although "Unknown" is an acceptable alternative.
13) Thou shalt name all generations of children with the identical first
names, as will all of the brothers so that all cousins are named the
Hi!
My name is Gary James and I have found pasted onto inside of the back cover
of a book I purchased at a flea market (an 1879 copy of "TENNYSON POEMS") an
obit for a Mrs. Sylvanus DUFFEY.
DUFFEY CLUES:
Unfortunately, as is often the case, there is no year of death or definitive
geographical location on the clipping saved other than a birth date of July,
1851 and the mention of a DeKalb township. Mrs. Duffey was the d/o Geo. W.
Lyon who arrived at (??? this location) in 1837 from NY.
A Mrs. O.S. Matteson wrote a poetic memoriam also pasted on this cover and
it is datelined Cortland, Ill.
CHRIS(T)MAN CLUES:
On the front cover of this same book, There are two obits. -- One for
Christine Chrisman who died 3/25/1885 and a Lawrence Christman who died on
8/31/1885.
The book appears to have been given as a Christmas present - Christmas 1878.
As it was inscribed in flowing script -- to Libby from Joe(?).
This book and these obits need a home. I hope I have just made someone's
day.
Gary James - Oklahoma
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