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    1. DEATH CERTIFICATES
    2. Sallie Cannon
    3. I wish to share experiences concerning death, birth, etc. records. My mother's death certificate showed her as: Sallie Haywood Morris. Her real name was Sara Camilla Haywood. A "Native Texan" Birth Certificate, that I ordered, shows my mother as Sarah Camille Haywood. When my mother seeked employment, she could not locate a birth certificate, so she had to file a "delayed" birth certificate, and that's when she changed her name to Sallie Haywood Morris. My grandfather was killed at an early age and had been baptized as Henry Edmund Morris. His name had been changed after his baptism, to Guy Hooker Morris so he could pass on his father's name of Guy Hooker Morris, who had also died early in life. He had no birth certificate, but his baptism records listed his parents. My father was named Willie Caton Morris, but when his father died when he was only 3 months of age, his name was changed to Guy Hooker Morris. He never knew that his father had also gone through a name change. His mother filed an amended birth certificate. My father died, never knew his mother had a middle name, which I was fortunate enough to learn in the church marriage records, as being, Sarah Mantooth Burch. On the present-day burial information sheets, the name of the person providing information pertaining to the deceased, is usually listed. Point is: the information on these records, is only as good as the information given by the person who provides the information.

    06/27/1999 02:40:00