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Re: Ellerbe Family Line Research
Posted by: Karen Spencer (ID *****7929) Date: March 18, 2009 at 13:59:25
In Reply to: Re: Ellerbe Family Line Research by John Cox of 212

Most of those people did not know how to read or write back then, and very few went to school, The clerks in the courthouses were the rare ones who did know how to write, and thus the different spellings of the name, they wrote it how it sounded to them.
Karen


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