Re: Delaughter Surename & variations
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Re: Delaughter Surename & variations
12/26/01
William (or Walter as you will) and Hazel were both a wonderful couple.I don't remember much of my great grandfather other than him being a very large but gentle man like you say.I remember he and my grandmother listening to Willie Nelson records while I was there.Hazel was always quilting and she would make us these wind-up "tractors" out of dowels, rubber-bands, and empty spools of thread which we'd play with in the floor.Sometimes she would play checkers with us (and beat our socks off).We also got our first and only puppy dog (which we named Georgie) from one of the runts of the litter that her dog had.She always had bottles of Pepsi in her kitchen pantry which we'd sometime get to drink.I asked my mother about the name and she said that William always went by Walter and indeed believed his name to be Walter William until shortly before my birth when they got the birth certificate and found the name was actually William Walter.I guess things like this are very common.My own wife has always thought her name Suellen with no middle name until we tracked down her birth certificate and early baptismal records that show the name as Sue Ellen...go figure.Regardless how you say the name, both Mr. & Mrs. DeLaughter were certainly wonderful people and we should all be proud to add them as ancestors.