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Subject: [OHGUERNS] Re: Searching For Parentage Of Thomas Wesley Bunfill - Fairview - 1922
Date: 2 May 2002 21:26:37 -0600

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> There was another branch of the Burnfield family in
> Washington Co, OH- several with Wesley as a middle name.
> Wonder if it was Esther's maiden name?? Sure seems like too
> much of a coincidence that John Burnfield Jr. also used
> that name for some of his sons.

It could just be that they were Methodists -- it was very common in the nineteenth century for Methodists to be named after John Wesley, the founder of that practice. I have several Wesleys in my Cranston family, both as first and middle name.

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