This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZMB.2ACI/1654 Message Board Post: If it is said that Nixa got it's name from Nicholas A. Inman at a town meeting but prior to this, it is said, Nixa was known not more than a "cross road", my question is, where does the name Faughts come in at? If Faughts became Nixa, then, what does the "croos roads" have anything to do with the name?