Given Names in Early America:
Shaped by history, religion and traditions
By Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG
An article submitted by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Geneaologist to Rootweb's internet site explains the phenomenon of American given names as follows:
"Many sons were named for well-known figures, local and national ones. Every genealogist whose families were in America by this time stumble across ancestors and relatives named George Washington Smith, Daniel Boone Williams or Abraham Lincoln Jones."
Daniel Boone Kretzer was born in Ohio in 1849 and named obviously in honor for Daniel Boone who died in 1820.
D.B. Kretzer met Mary Ann Atkinson and they married February 11, 1872 in Andrew County MO. Mary Ann was the youngest of their five children. Her nickname was Annie.
In later years, the Kretzers came to live with their daughter, Ida May Russell and her husband Albert Franklin Russell. The Russells were starting their family in this area as Albert tried his hand at hard rock mining in Cornucopia, OR.
Daniel Boone Kretzer and Mary Ann Kretzer are buried in the New Hope Cemetery of Baker City OR.
Shaped by history, religion and traditions
By Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG
An article submitted by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Geneaologist to Rootweb's internet site explains the phenomenon of American given names as follows:
"Many sons were named for well-known figures, local and national ones. Every genealogist whose families were in America by this time stumble across ancestors and relatives named George Washington Smith, Daniel Boone Williams or Abraham Lincoln Jones."
Daniel Boone Kretzer was born in Ohio in 1849 and named obviously in honor for Daniel Boone who died in 1820.
D.B. Kretzer met Mary Ann Atkinson and they married February 11, 1872 in Andrew County MO. Mary Ann was the youngest of their five children. Her nickname was Annie.
In later years, the Kretzers came to live with their daughter, Ida May Russell and her husband Albert Franklin Russell. The Russells were starting their family in this area as Albert tried his hand at hard rock mining in Cornucopia, OR.
Daniel Boone Kretzer and Mary Ann Kretzer are buried in the New Hope Cemetery of Baker City OR.
Given Names in Early America:
Shaped by history, religion and traditions
By Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG
An article submitted by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Geneaologist to Rootweb's internet site explains the phenomenon of American given names as follows:
"Many sons were named for well-known figures, local and national ones. Every genealogist whose families were in America by this time stumble across ancestors and relatives named George Washington Smith, Daniel Boone Williams or Abraham Lincoln Jones."
Daniel Boone Kretzer was born in Ohio in 1849 and named obviously in honor for Daniel Boone who died in 1820.
D.B. Kretzer met Mary Ann Atkinson and they married February 11, 1872 in Andrew County MO. Mary Ann was the youngest of their five children. Her nickname was Annie.
In later years, the Kretzers came to live with their daughter, Ida May Russell and her husband Albert Franklin Russell. The Russells were starting their family in this area as Albert tried his hand at hard rock mining in Cornucopia, OR.
Daniel Boone Kretzer and Mary Ann Kretzer are buried in the New Hope Cemetery of Baker City OR.
Shaped by history, religion and traditions
By Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG
An article submitted by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Geneaologist to Rootweb's internet site explains the phenomenon of American given names as follows:
"Many sons were named for well-known figures, local and national ones. Every genealogist whose families were in America by this time stumble across ancestors and relatives named George Washington Smith, Daniel Boone Williams or Abraham Lincoln Jones."
Daniel Boone Kretzer was born in Ohio in 1849 and named obviously in honor for Daniel Boone who died in 1820.
D.B. Kretzer met Mary Ann Atkinson and they married February 11, 1872 in Andrew County MO. Mary Ann was the youngest of their five children. Her nickname was Annie.
In later years, the Kretzers came to live with their daughter, Ida May Russell and her husband Albert Franklin Russell. The Russells were starting their family in this area as Albert tried his hand at hard rock mining in Cornucopia, OR.
Daniel Boone Kretzer and Mary Ann Kretzer are buried in the New Hope Cemetery of Baker City OR.
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