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As a child I began hearing about a little
town in the next county with an interesting
name—the same as my surname. 

I gave that fact no more thought until I began
teaching in that town years later. A few years later, 
my daughter and I moved there.

One day I was talking with the town’s historian, 
who had written books and articles about the town. 
To my surprise, I learned her maiden name and mine 
were the same. 

I shared a little classroom story with her: 

“I have told my kids they’d better respect me because I’m
a direct descendant of the founder of this town!” 
Then I laughed. 

She said, “You are, and so am I.”

She provided me with proof! I also bought her book
and have done enough research of my own to feel
somewhat of a connection to this man, founder of
the town I have now happily lived in for three decades.



March 2, 2019, entered in Kim Rodrigues's What's in a Name Contest

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