Hi all, I thought I would relate a funny little story as told by my G-grandmother Nellie CULP CLARK as it was told to me by my mom's cousin Randy Clark. It seems that back in Mt. Sterling, Ohio in Madison County where G-grandma was born in 1879 that at the age of about 8 years old, she insisted over and over again that her name Ida Grant CULP must be changed because the girl down the road of the same given name, had "bugs". She pestered my GG-grandpa Andrew Jackson CULP & her mother Sciota Belle MADDUX to change her name legally to Nellie Grant CULP and he finally agreed and drove her 20 miles by buggy to Circleville to the courthouse and that is how she came to be forever known as Nellie. This explains why in one census she is listed as Ida and all later census showed Nellie! I had wondered who that Ida child was in my files that was born in the same year but that was unaccounted for. Seems that G-grandma Nellie was determined not to have a name associated with bugs..........<Grin>. I can only wonder what kind of bugs that the other little girl had!! I sure got a chuckle out of that story and wish G-grandma had told me that story before she died in 1974! Take care, Kathie Harrison http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~irishrose/lists/index.htm