[email protected] writes: > FYI, my GGrandmother Alpharetta DeMaranville Millard was always called Etta, > maybe the person doing the search for Etta May, could try using Alpharetta, > maybe Etta was a common nickname for Alpharetta. Just a thought. > > Lucille Thanks for the idea, Lucille. Want to hear something really strange? Etta May's real name is Louisa! When she was a tot, the census of 1880 showed her as a one-year old "Louisa E. M. INGRAM". Then sometime later, I found out that her father, Uriah, was married once before and had many children with him. That wife had died --- her name was LOUISA! I just have a hunch that the second wife (my gggrandmother) was not pleased about naming her child after her husbands former wife, and chose to address her daughter by her middle name(s) "Etta May" instead. But by the time she was 24, Louisa Etta May INGRAM LONGWELL WAGNER just used plain ole "May" on documents like marriage certificates. But after 1903, I cant find her under any name except for her brother's obit of 1944.. :( Valerie