This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Felkner, Howard Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/nBB.2ACI/1612.1655.1694.1693.1700.1769.1772.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you, Imogene. Given that Julia's daughter, Orlena, was born in 1855, and Rosannah's marriage to her brother-in-law was early in 1856, it would seem that Julia may have died in childbirth or shortly thereafter. It would also seem that Adam and Rosannah's marriage was of the shot gun variety. It is amazing how names change. It seems to me the root of Felkner/Feltner is probably Faulkner, and the name was changed through regional dialect and illiteracy. I prefer to use the name that was consistantly used at the time. For Adam, that would be Felkner. For his descendants it has become Feltner. I saw it spelled three different ways in the same census in the same county. I have seen Howard written as Hord and Hoard. Some of my cousins from Kentucky and Tennessee pronounce Howard as Haired. Thank God it was more often than not written down as Howard. Thanks again.