Roberta, In regard to your inquiry about "Estes" being used as a middle name by someone whose last name was "Estes" - that certainly was the case in my family. My ggg grandmother (Celia Barnes Pinkerton) named her son (Wiley Estes Pinkerton) after her mother who was Rhoda Estes Barnes. The name stayed in the family through my great grand father and finally to my father. Sadly, all my brothers were named "popular" names instead of following the family tradition. Ester