You sound very knowledable on names in that area so maybe you can help me
sort something out. I actually am trying to identify M.W. Richards who
married Ella Honchen in Bartholomew Co., IN just before the 1880 Census. He
is listed in 1880 as 24 year old teacher with wife Ella and one son Lewis. I
know they had another son born just after that census. In trying to
identify this man I am going through all of the Richards families in the
1860 and 1870 Census in hopes of finding a child in a family whose name
would give him the initials M.W. I have used this type of search before
when other things didn't help. If I find someone whose name would give him
M.W. as initials then I will have to work to prove I have the right man. In
1870 I found a young man age 15 living with a Montgomery family in
Washington Co., IN whose name appears on the 1870 Census index as Methoday,
but appears to me to be Matho-?-?. I actually had wondered whether this
Massilon, son of Henry in 1860 is the same person. That is why I was trying
to make sense out of the name. So what do you think about a spelling that
looks like Methoday or Matho-?-? Ever heard of anything like that?
Thanks if you can help!
Sheri LeQuia
1227 Panorama Pt.
Merced, CA 9530
lequia(a)sbcglobal.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Ann Trimmer [mailto:ann@trimmer.net]
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 5:40 AM
To: INWHITLE-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [INWHITLE] Henry Richards Family of Whitley Co., IN
It looks to me like the names for the Richards family are spelled this
way
Henry
Catharine
Daniel
Clarissa
Ann E.
John
Henry Jr
Massilon
Sylvester W
Olive
John
Those things that look like an f...are the first of a double s...an old
fashioned way of writing it.
The name Massillon is not uncommon in Ohio.There is a town by that name
in the eastern part of Ohio, near Canton...and a street of that name in
Findlay which is in western Ohio.
Ann
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