>Resent-date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 19:05:13 -0700 >Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 20:05:08 -0600 >Resent-from: NCJOHNST-L@rootsweb.com >From: Ted Gurley <tgurley@veriomail.com> >Subject: [NCJOHNST] Name - Sudie ? >Resent-sender: NCJOHNST-L-request@rootsweb.com >X-Sender: tgurley@pop.veriomail.com >To: NCJOHNST-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 >X-Loop: NCJOHNST-L@rootsweb.com >Old-To: NCJOHNST-L@rootsweb.com >X-Original-Sender: tgurley@veriomail.com Wed Mar 7 19:05:13 2001 >X-Mailing-List: <NCJOHNST-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/205 > >I have found this name in the JoCo area and Wayne Co. circa. 1890 - 1920. > >Any thought on why this was popular and how it was pronounced. > >It seems like it should be SUE - DEE. > >I'm sure someone will know. > >Ted > Ann Massengill responds: Hi, Ted. You may get other answers. I had two friends in school named Sudie, pron. SUE-dy. My teachers assumed the name was a nickname for Susan, but both girls vehemently denied it. I think it's a Southern thing, as I grew up in Greenwood County SC. Because I once had to do detention for arguing one friend's case with the extremely formidable Mrs. Catherine D. Austell, who did not permit the use of nicknames in her 8th-grade English class, I shall stay tuned to this discussion with great interest, sorry only that I may not have the chance to seek out her grave and say to its spinning self: I told you so! Life is good... annie

Obviously this is anecdotal, but when I was searching for my GGGF's grave site, I also found on my GGAunt's grave site: SUSAN ³SUDYE² McNEILL WIFE OF BEN WITHERS MAY 18, 1879 JULY 28 1934 My mom was surprised to learn "Susan" was on the gravestone, having only known her as Sudie (SUEdee). Of course, information on a gravestone isn't carved in...uh...I mean that there is no guarantee that the information on a gravestone is correct :-) Stewart > From: Ann Massengill/John Evans <nicojak@ftc-i.net> >> From: Ted Gurley <tgurley@veriomail.com> >> I have found this name in the JoCo area and Wayne Co. circa. 1890 - 1920. >> Any thought on why this was popular and how it was pronounced. >> It seems like it should be SUE - DEE. >> Ted > > Ann Massengill responds: > Hi, Ted. You may get other answers. I had two friends in school named > Sudie, pron. SUE-dy. My teachers assumed the name was a nickname for > Susan, but both girls vehemently denied it. I think it's a Southern thing, > as I grew up in Greenwood County SC. Because I once had to do detention > for arguing one friend's case with the extremely formidable Mrs. Catherine > D. Austell, who did not permit the use of nicknames in her 8th-grade > English class, I shall stay tuned to this discussion with great interest, > sorry only that I may not have the chance to seek out her grave and say to > its spinning self: I told you so! > > Life is good... > > annie Then you die?