In a message dated 5/26/2003 12:07:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time, gholback_1999@yahoo.com writes: << An amazing thing in the South is that given names and surnames have been so distorted in their spelling >> I have a genealogy buddy who was working on the Rhodes family. You can imagine the variations. As she and her husband were copying the stones in a cemetery, she came across a long granite marker lying down in the grass that had MARTIN ROAD carved lengthwise down the stone. She: "Look how this one spelled it." He: "Honey, that's the street sign. Someone has knocked it down. We are on Martin Road. Donna