To give you a little chuckle. When I helped sort the Saline Co birth records, after a move from storage, I ran across the following birth record: Father: Thorny Bush Mother: Rosa Bush child: Berry Bush Truth is always stranger than fiction. <grin> Ginger gingerh@intrnet.net ILGenWeb Page Evaluation Coordinator ILGenWeb ASC http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilgenweb Pope County ILGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilpope Hardin County ILGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhardi2 ---------- > From: Kay239@aol.com > To: ILPOPE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ILPOPE-L] GREENBERRY > Date: Monday, January 11, 1999 8:44 PM > > I'm also curious as to who and why in the world someone would name their baby > boy Greenberry! > > Well, they named my hubbies great grand father Thomas William Appleberry > SISTLER. So I guess during that time the berry of one sort or another was a > poplar name for a boy. > > Kay > of the PALMER/SISTLER/SCHUCHARDT/MAXWELL/HOLLOWAY and related families