In a message dated 9/6/03 9:35:13, stropes@frsb.net writes: << Although I have heard my grandma say "Garrid", or something close to that. It is so hard to get out of the habits you have formed for 30+ years! But I'm trying! Cousin Shelly >> Shelly: One of my old ones gave the pronunciation on her genealogy papers she did only so she could join the DAR. I never paid much attention to it since I'd never heard anyone say the name. By the time I got a copy of this family genealogy all my old ones were gone. My grandma said her granddaddys had very strange accents. One was from Ireland and the other was John Maupin from Clay County, Kentucky. Sandi