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From: "Freddie Spradlin" <>
Subject: [VACARROL] Megaha
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 15:34:15 -0700


I wasn't aware that there's a family now present in the county using the
name with
that spelling, "Megaha". I'm not going to dispute JPA ... 8^) ... and it's
certainly
a "sound-like" match.

Freddie S.

>
>
> I remember talking to John Perry Alderman about Elizabeth Megatha and all
the
> various spellings. His contention was that it was the same family that
now goes
> by the name Megaha. He claimed the clerks' spelling was pretty bad and
that a
> lot of times the couple could not read nor write themselves. Hence some
of the
> spellings we are left wih today.
>
>
>

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