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Crosen Family, Gainsboro, VA, 1930 Census |
I do not doubt that a couple would name their nine children after states. The census is full of people named after states. I was, however, skeptical about the chances of a man named Utah and a woman named Rhode Island finding one another. Stranger things have happened, but I wondered whether this family might have been having some fun with the census taker.
Then, I found them in the 1920 Census, too. If it was a joke, it was a long-running and well-maintained gag.
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Crosen Family, Gainsboro, VA, 1920 Census |
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And what about Samuel Draper who died in Boston in 1767, and named his four sons: Newburyport, New York, Boston and James. ("Drapers in America" published 1892) Samuel was obviously a captain of a ship.
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