One of my favorite genealogical activities is walking
through cemeteries, checking out the names of those who have gone before
us. Every so often, though, I come
across a name that makes me stop and say, “Wait. What?”
Such is the case of this stone that I walked past in Ira,
Vermont a few weeks ago.
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| Gravestone of Anna Fish, Riverside Cemetery, Ira, VT |
ANNA
WIFE OF
SERVED FISH
1804 – 1846
“Really?” I thought. “Someone
named their child Served Fish?”
It gets better though. As I got ready to write this blog post, I looked up Served’s
birth record. His father: Preserved
Fish.
Sometimes you really can’t make this stuff up.
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| Birth Record, Served Fish. Ancestry.com. Vermont, Vital Records, 1720-1908 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Original data: State of Vermont. Vermont Vital Records through 1870. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.State of Vermont. Vermont Vital Records, 1871–1908. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. |
Your post made my week. This is the funniest post I've seen in a long time!
ReplyDeleteLooks like Served Fisk, and Preserved Fisk. No joke.
ReplyDeleteLooks like Served Fisk and Preserved Fisk.
ReplyDeleteThis is my great, great, great, great, great, great, (continuing for a while) grandfather.
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