I have received a great deal of help from Jerry in Denver whose wife descended from my Silas P. Wooten. Her earlier ancestors were: Silas Penix Wooton and Phebe Worth Levi Wooton (later changed to Ooton) and Alpha Omega Tailor Nancy Ann Ooton and John Johnson ........ So here is a documented case of a name being changed by one son while other sons continued to go by the original name. Levi moved out of Ky as I recall--to Illinois. So perhaps his change of name was because of his change in location. I also remember something that I received from Michael Wooten and Carl Wooten one weekend--are you out there Michael to verify if you are the one who told me this or Carl?--that Silas and his son Levi had a falling out that probably led to Levi's leaving Ky. Perhaps his anger with his father led him to the name change? The story that was told indicated that Phoebe left with Levi and also moved to Illinois....but I have never double checked this information. Carl and Michael gave me some other stories that weekend as well that I have not gotten around to trying to verifying. Perhaps I can do some work on that this spring. I do not descend from Levi. I descend Silas>Thomas Alfred>Silas>Sarah Jane. All of my line continued to go by Wooten. Perhaps the original Silas pronounced it differently than we do now? Making the spellings both seem correct? Interesting! Marsha in WV Al Wootten wrote: .... > > Gale sent a note to Lower-Delmarva Roots with a question on Wooten and Outen > in Georgia. Does anyone wish to opine on these changelings?? > ... > Al > > > The Fairfield Co., SC website at USGENWEB has posted the 1800 census. > On pg. 225 & 226 respectively are listed Moses Outen and Aaron Outen. > > The Little River Baptist Church Minutes, also posted at this website, mention > Moses Wooten (abt 1802) and Aaron Wooten (1805). > > There are no WOOTEN's listed on the 1800 census and there are no OUTEN's > listed in the church record. The 1810 census index lists these same OUTEN's > but no WOOTEN'S. > > To me, though I have not looked further afield, these look like the same > people. > > Gale