Hi, Tom Your comment reminds me -- our family lived 21 miles from Harry's birthplace of Lamar, MO -- that there used to be a middle name made up for him; it sounds just like the "S" Paul in Michigan In a message dated 08/26/06 7:51:43 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Dear Paul, Surely you can see the problem with "no middle name"? Harry S Truman served in the Government three times. Once as a Captain in the Artillery in WWI and once as VP and once as Prez. He had a middle initial but no middle name. NMN would have worked for Prez George Washington and Prez Thomas Jefferson, but not everyone in the Government. Tom of 1812

Along those same lines I have found a number of families not giving their daughters middle names so that the maiden name could carry on after marriage. One of my girls just stopped using her middle name in order to use her maiden name as a middle name. It sure helps when following a female line. Ginny -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 9:58 AM Subject: Re: [VACULPEP] FNU Hi, Tom Your comment reminds me -- our family lived 21 miles from Harry's birthplace of Lamar, MO -- that there used to be a middle name made up for him; it sounds just like the "S" Paul in Michigan In a message dated 08/26/06 7:51:43 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Dear Paul, Surely you can see the problem with "no middle name"? Harry S Truman served in the Government three times. Once as a Captain in the Artillery in WWI and once as VP and once as Prez. He had a middle initial but no middle name. NMN would have worked for Prez George Washington and Prez Thomas Jefferson, but not everyone in the Government. Tom of 1812 ==== VACULPEP Mailing List ==== NOTICE: The posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett [email protected] ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx ________________________________________________________________________ Check out AOL.com today. Breaking news, video search, pictures, email and IM. All on demand. Always Free.

Dear Paul, HST was my fourth cousin, twice removed. It was on his Kentucky Shipp family side that we are related. The story goes that there were two families in his background whose surname began with S. I have both of them somewhere, but only remember the Shipps. HST's mother wanted not to slight either one of them so she gave her son the middle initial S and let each one think it stood for their surname. She sounds like a Solomonaic-type person. Tom [email protected] wrote: > > Hi, Tom > > Your comment reminds me -- our family lived 21 miles from Harry's birthplace > of Lamar, MO -- that there used to be a middle name made up for him; it > sounds just like the "S" > > Paul in Michigan > > > In a message dated 08/26/06 7:51:43 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Dear Paul, > > Surely you can see the problem with "no middle name"? Harry S Truman > served in the Government three times. Once as a Captain in the > Artillery in WWI and once as VP and once as Prez. He had a middle > initial but no middle name. > > NMN would have worked for Prez George Washington and Prez Thomas > Jefferson, but not everyone in the Government. > > Tom of 1812 > > > > >