Re: mulch NOW Names


Zem:  What a lovely story...thanks for sharing.


Melody, IA (Z 5/4)

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."    
--Albert Einstein

 --- On Thu 05/13,  < Zemuly@aol.com > wrote:
From:  [mailto: Zemuly@aol.com]
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 09:11:44 EDT
Subject: Re: [CHAT] mulch NOW Names

In a message dated 5/12/2004 9:58:02 PM Central Standard Time,
<br>tchessie@comcast.net writes:<br>Where does your name come
from?<br>For many generations in my father's family the first daughter
was given the <br>name of both her paternal and maternal grandmothers. I
have pictures of <br>several of the Zemulys in my family, the oldest
being of my great great great <br>grandmother, Zemuly Coates McClesky.
It was sometimes spelled "Zemily." I don't <br>know its origin, but I
have proof going back to the eighteenth century. <br>Unfortunately,
girls didn't count for much in family wills or other records before
<br>that time. There is even a community, named for an ancestor, in
Mississippi <br>with that name. If my parents had truly followed the
custom my name would have <br>been Zemuly
Isabel.<br><br>zem<br><br>---------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Support
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