I may know: German-speaking Ohioans (for the most part) used their middle name not their first name. I have this in my family, too. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Helen Pond" <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 11:28:41 -0500 >Hey, hey, hey. >Relatives coming out of the woodwork!!!!! I'm trying to prove his birth. >And am also trying to figure out why he was supposedly born Francis H. but >changed his name to Harley Franklin. Any ideas up there? > >Thanks >Helen STRONG Pond >grandaughter of Harley Frank Strong s/o Horatio Benton m. Almira Foster >----- Original Message ----- >From: <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 10:11 AM >Subject: Re: [OHVINTON-L] Harley Strong > > >> This is a listing in the Social Security Death Index >> >> HARLEY STRONG 11 Oct 1920 Nov 1971 278-18-4166 Ohio >> >> >> I am related to another Harley Strong: >> >> Harley Franklin Strong >> Born March 23, 1901-Wilkesville, Ohio >> Died February 1975-Galveston, Texas >> Son of Horatio Benton Strong and Almira Foster >> >> > > ________________________________________________________________ CPAs . . . Making Sense of a Changing and Complex World.