Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Five Funny, Strange, Interesting or Unique Surnames in Your Family Tree

 From Randy (my cousin) over at Genea-Musings:

it's Saturday Night - 

time for more Genealogy Fun!!!

Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:

1)  We all have a plethora of surnames in our family trees, and some of them are funny, strange, interesting or unique.  Please share five of your funny, strange, interesting or unique surnames in our ancestry.  How are they related to you?

2) Tell us about the surnames in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook or other social media post.  Please leave a link on this post if you write your own post.

Here's mine:

1)    Richard Schoonover (1800-1880) is my 3rd great-grandfather. He was born born in New Jersey and died in Wisconsin. He changed the name slightly from his father - it was Schoonhover.  His father also changed the name slightly from his father's ... it was Schoonhoven.  

2)  George W Schwalls, Sr (1837-1908) is my 2nd great-grandfather. He migrated from Germany and added an "s" to the end of the original version.  He died in Georgia.

3)  Nancy E McClammy (1777-1838) is my 3rd great-grandmother. She was married to Wright Scoggins (?-1837). She was born in Alabama and died in Georgia.

4) Richard Treat, Sr (1584-1670) is my 9th great-grandfather. He was born in England and died in Connecticut, USA.

5)  John Edgar Knipher (1903-1984) was the husband of my 1st cousin, 1x removed, Mozelle Elizabeth Lampp (1903-1993). He was born and died in Georgia. 

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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Your Paternal Grandfather's Matrilineal Line

 From Randy (a cousin discovery!!) over at Genea-Musings:

it's Saturday Night - 

time for more Genealogy Fun!!!

Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:

(1)  Who is in your paternal grandfather's matrilineal line (i.e., the mother of your paternal grandfather, her mother, her mother, and so on)?

(2)  Tell us all about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, in a post on Facebook, or on Twitter.  

Here's mine:

My paternal grandfather was Lusion Keman Tapley (1870-1935).

His mother, my great-grandmother, was Elizabeth Rebecca "Becky" Page (1844-1924) who married James Madison "Jim" Tapley (1847-1912) in Johnson County, Georgia in 1866.

Her mother, my 2nd great-grandmother, was Elizabeth Carolina "Betsy" Scoggins (1802-1880) who married Solomon Page (1800-1860) in Washington County, Georgia on July 14, 1839. 

Her mother, my 3rd great-grandmother, was Nancy E McClammy* (1777-1838) who married Wright Scoggins (unknown-1837).  Their marriage date and location are unknown.  

    *The identities of Wright Scoggins and Nancy E McClammy have not been proven.  This information has been gleaned from other family trees, but I have been unable to prove the information to be absolutely true.  

And that is the end of the line.  That is all I know for sure about my paternal grandfather's matrilineal line.  I have searched for Scoggins and McClammy information before, but as it is getting back to the 18th century, where entire families were not listed on the census, information has been harder to come by.