There's a little boy on the 1850 Census in one of my NC Counties named Fishbite Smith. Folks could be pretty funny...still can, I guess! -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Jennie Vertrees" <[email protected]> > I've done genealogical research for over 50 years and I started writing down > strange names. One which caused me to chuckle was Preserved Fish. I wrote > about that as a funny name and sent it to one of the genealogical sites I > frequent and a party wrote back that that person was a male relative of hers and > she didn't know why he'd been called that either. > > I'm an RN and used to work in a newborn nursery in Denver, CO. A baby girl > born, while I was working there, was named Winter Wheat ---------. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message