Re: mulch NOW Names

Barb, glad to hear you're not bouncing around so much anymore.  How much
space do you have?  Sounds like you're quite the trailblazer!
Kitty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Tandy" <sundrops@earthlink.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] mulch NOW Names


> This discussion of names ( a hobby of mine for many years) has gotten me
out
> of lurker status.  Ths information about "Zemuly" is so interesting!  Zem,
> what is the ethnic / cultural / whatever background of your family?  I
just
> did a google search on Zemuly and it turned up several Zemulys in
> genealogical references, and also the town you mentioned, Z, Mississippi
> named for a  Z Morgan.
>     I am in Grass Valley full time now -- still nothing planted in what
> passes for "ground": around here but have some nice planters on the deck
> now.  Am spending a lot of time hacking thru manzanita and ceanothus
making
> trails out to the edges of my property.  For some reason this is very
> enjoyable -- my version of taming the wilderness, I guess.  I still have
not
> made it to the south border (down a fairly steep hill) to where I can
> overlook my road.
> --Barb Tandy, California
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <gardenqueen@academicplanet.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 9:49 AM
> Subject: Re: Re: [CHAT] mulch NOW Names
>
>
> > Well it's a very cool name, appropriately enough!
> > :-)
> > Pam Evans
> > Kemp, TX
> > zone 8A
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Zemuly@aol.com
> > Sent: 5/13/2004 8:11:44 AM
> > To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] mulch NOW Names
> >
> > > In a message dated 5/12/2004 9:58:02 PM Central Standard Time,
> > > tchessie@comcast.net writes:
> > > Where does your name come from?
> > > For many generations in my father's family the first daughter was
given
> the
> > > name of both her paternal and maternal grandmothers.  I have pictures
of
> > > several of the Zemulys in my family, the oldest being of my great
great
> great
> > > grandmother, Zemuly Coates McClesky.  It was sometimes spelled
"Zemily."
> I don't
> > > know its origin, but I have proof going back to the eighteenth
century.
> > > Unfortunately, girls didn't count for much in family wills or other
> records before
> > > that time.  There is even a community, named for an ancestor, in
> Mississippi
> > > with that name.  If my parents had truly followed the custom my name
> would have
> > > been Zemuly Isabel.
> > >
> > > zem
> > >
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