In a message dated 2/14/2003 12:49:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > While going through the obits from the "Daily Progress" that are on line. I > saw an obituary for a Viar. I lived there for nine years knew some of this > family, but did not know they spelled it Viar. William - just a comment about the above posting. My Via family are from the area of Albemarle where you lived - Sugar Hollow, Doylesville, and they, as you say, spelled it as "VIA." But on occasion, in letters in the 1930s and 1940s, my great grandmother signed her name as "VIAR." I do not know why.  I have often wondered if it seemed more "literate" that way. ~~ <A HREF="http://www.ednabarney.com/">Edna Barney</A>