This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Loftin/Lofton?Loften Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RS.2ADI/521.2.3.1 Message Board Post: I have heard though the family that there was some sort of "falling out" between Loftin/Lofton/Loften brothers, supposidly in my Great Grandpa's time. GGPa was Sparkman Bowen Loftin, who changed the spelling of his name to Lofton...has anyone heard a similar story?