In a message dated 6/2/2002 12:32:05 PM Mountain Daylight Time, gailhon@earthlink.net writes: > Was that still a practice in the time of the Civil War? My great grandparents married in 1862 in Indiana.. The scribe put her surname as you mention.. Her name was MOSS, but it appears to be Mops on the record.. with the double ss.. Good Luck, Ellie S.