Hi Sackett Searchers: I've run across a good example of how the spelling of a person's name can really get messed up when it is recorded the way it sounded when spoken to the one writing it down. For the wife of 3078-Samuel W. Sackett; Weygant has her name as Cizubah Vaughn on pg 224 and as Elisabeth Vaughn on pg. 321 I recently found the transcription of her headstone which has her name spelled AZUBAL: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyschuyl/Glenwd4.html GLENWOOD CEMETERY, Town of Dix, Schuyler Co., NY Azubal (VAUGHN) his [Samuel W. Sackett] wife b. 7-2-1826 d. 8-21-1874 Then there is a transcription of a 1855 census which has her name spelled as AZUBATH http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyschuyl/1855ca6.htm 1855 Census--Town of CATHARINE (incl. MONTOUR) Schuyler co., NY Format: Name; Age in years; Relationship to head; Birthplace. SACKET S.W. 34 head b. Rensalier Azubath 27 wife b. Schuyler Philo 5 son b. Schuyler So we have ELIZABETH spelled as CIZUBAH, AZUBAL and AZUBATH Now, just try to imagine that you are listening to to them SAYING the name !! Thurmon

And in the 1860 census of Catherine, Schuyler Co. NY it is spelled Azubulie V. Sackett although it could be a Ayubulie just looks a little different from the census takers ys. Samuel W. Sackett is 39 Azubulie V. " is 34 Philo " is 10 Delia M. " is 5 All born in New York, Samuel a farmer In 1870 census Montour (Post Office Catherine), Schuyler co., NY is is very clearly Azubah, age 44, Samuel is age 48, Delia is age 15. all born New York, Samuel quite a prosperous farmer. All the letters are quite clearly written in 1870, not so clear in 1860. I wonder if her name was Elizabeth, that is a very common name to be misheard by so many recorders. I would expect that it would work the other way round, an uncommon name misheard as a common name. Just a thought. -----Original Message----- From: Thurmon E. King [mailto:thurmonking@juno.com] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 7:36 PM To: SACKETT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SACKETT-L] How do you SPELL what they SAID ?? Hi Sackett Searchers: I've run across a good example of how the spelling of a person's name can really get messed up when it is recorded the way it sounded when spoken to the one writing it down. For the wife of 3078-Samuel W. Sackett; Weygant has her name as Cizubah Vaughn on pg 224 and as Elisabeth Vaughn on pg. 321 I recently found the transcription of her headstone which has her name spelled AZUBAL: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyschuyl/Glenwd4.html GLENWOOD CEMETERY, Town of Dix, Schuyler Co., NY Azubal (VAUGHN) his [Samuel W. Sackett] wife b. 7-2-1826 d. 8-21-1874 Then there is a transcription of a 1855 census which has her name spelled as AZUBATH http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyschuyl/1855ca6.htm 1855 Census--Town of CATHARINE (incl. MONTOUR) Schuyler co., NY Format: Name; Age in years; Relationship to head; Birthplace. SACKET S.W. 34 head b. Rensalier Azubath 27 wife b. Schuyler Philo 5 son b. Schuyler So we have ELIZABETH spelled as CIZUBAH, AZUBAL and AZUBATH Now, just try to imagine that you are listening to to them SAYING the name !! Thurmon ==== SACKETT Mailing List ==== RootsWeb WorldConnect Project and is located at: <http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/press/worldconnect.html>. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237