This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YRZ.2ACIB/110.1.2.1 Message Board Post: His name was not Paul Sylvanus, it was Sylvanus Paul, my husband was named after him, plus I have a portrait of him from the 1800's and it has his name on the back. He was either a Senator or a Representative in Indiana in the mid 1800's and was called Vaney pronouced vainee.