How about Green Brush and Harry Brush? I said previously I had thought about writing a book. Most of my material has come out of Pope County alone. Dee Doyle -----Original Message----- From: Ginger <gingerh@intrnet.net> To: ILPOPE-L@rootsweb.com <ILPOPE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, January 11, 1999 10:02 PM Subject: Re: [ILPOPE-L] GREENBERRY >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 >