Dear Dennis, I'm not sure about the "Dover" because I never heard of it until I started trying to find my grandmother's family. However, I know for a fact that she, "Lula", pronounced and spelled her name "Lular" and my Mother, "Thelma" was called "Thelmer." Interesting! Besides, the census takers were I am sure from the area where the census was being taken, so they wrote down what they "heard." >From one of your, not quite South, but Southwestern cousins. We, as you know, have our own Southwestern Drawl. Lou Dennis Dover wrote: > > A question for our Dover cousins living in the South .... is > there anyway a southern accent can orally get pronounced > DOVER that gets written down as DEAVER? > > Deaver also equals DEVER and DEVER is a possible written > transcription error for DOVER. > > This has haunted me for a long time. > > Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom & Laura [mailto:tom-lauramsn@email.msn.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 11:40 AM > To: DOVER-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [DOVER-L] DEAVER > > Does anyone have a copy of Emmett Starrs History of Cherokee > Indians? I was looking at a list of surnames that appear in > the book and noticed alot of familiar names. > > DEAVER is on page 395 > > A few of the other names on the same page are > BAILEY > COLLINS > PINDAR > > I sure am curious about that book now! > > ==== DOVER Mailing List ==== > Search the Dover archives at > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?surname=D > OVER-L > > ==== DOVER Mailing List ==== > Search the Dover archives at > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?surname=DOVER-L