Thanks Kim. I wondered if that was the case or she just changed it when she came north. I made several trips to New Orleans and had a very good friend that was Cajun. I know what you mean about how they pronounce words and names. Like you I love crawfish when they're prepared right (at least the tails). Crawfish Etoufee is fabulous. I remember visiting my friend at her home in New Orleans suburb and we went out to the boats where they bring in seafood and got a bunch of crawfish. We took them home and she boiled them and then covered the table in newspapers and dumped the huge pot of crawfish on the table and we sat there peeling and eating them like shrimp, just eating the tails. Yummy! Sandy (Whalen) Bauer On 7/17/2013 3:49 AM, Chapman Kim wrote: > Bob and Sandy, > > Will try and answer both of your questions in this one e-mail. > > Bob, The LEWIS ancestry of Lonnie is not connected to the LEWIS family you and I share in common, please note the birthplaces of Bristol in the following line: > > Ettie M dau of James Madison LEWIS and Lucy Annette (LNU) [both born in Brighton, England] > > This is noted in my file, so I must have traced this down in the past, wondering about the same possibility of another cross-link between the families. > > > Sandy, Her name was Lucy Ann. She was buried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery by Greenberry, and her headstone is so engraved. > > I suspect the census enumerator spelled what he heard, and if the 'c' in Lucy is pronounced just a bit hard, and the names are run together he would have heard "Loosyann" with a hard 's' sound. In addition, even the oldest family history handwritten references (dating back to the late 1800s) to the marriage with Greenberry list her maiden name as Lucy Ann CHRISTIAN. > > I can remember hearing when growing up, some of the older generation (including an old Cajun who came north to mine coal - who let us seine his pond for crawdads for bait so long as he got to pick out what he wanted to cook [I ate with him, they were good]) referring to the State down south as 'Loosiann' or 'Loosianna' where the 's' is hard, almost a 'z' sound. > > So, the entry is understandable. > > Trust you are both well. > > Kim > > --------- > > Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:55:19 -0400 (EDT) > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ILJEFFER] HILL, James Lon (OBIT) > To: [email protected] > > > Lonnie is also a Christian cousin. Lonnie's ancestor Lucy Ann Christian is a sister to my Great Great Great Gandfather Lemuel Christian. I don't have any of the Lewises listed in my Lewis database so I don't know if they are connected to my Lewis line. > > Bob > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 09:03:24 -0700 > From: Sandy Bauer <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ILJEFFER] HILL, James Lon (OBIT) > To: [email protected] > > Kim > > I found it interesting Green B. Hill's wife was listed as Louisanna in > the 1850 census in Claiborne Co, TN. Do you think that was incorrect or > did she just change the spelling of her name later to Lucy Ann? > > Sandy (Whalen) Bauer > > > Visit the Jefferson County web site at: > www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iljeffer/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >