George Gifford Musselman is Born!

Congratulations to Kevin George on the birth of his beautiful grandson, George Gifford Musselman!

Following are a couple of Kevin's posts from his message board thread "Sleep Deprived but Worth It":

Sat, May 27 2006 1:09 pm

I watched my granddaughters last night while my daughter had her third - a son this time. Both maternal grandparents and great grandparents are Marion County people (Lebanon and Jessetown) so the little boy is starting out well.

Mom and George (I think a GREAT name for a little boy) are doing great. And women always want to know - 8 pounds 2 ounces and 20.5 inches long. And according to the father, he looks the part of a George too.

Now Grandpap needs a nap.

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And here is an interesting entry in which Kevin describes to us and his cousin, Dennis, on how their family settled on the surname "George":

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Dennis,

My mother's brother's name was George George. As you should know, the children took the first name of their father as their last name. So Alan's name in the old country would be Alan ibn Dennis or Alan son of Dennis. They did that because otherwise, no one could easily determine who the people were. Europeans did the same thing and that is why we have names such as "Johnson" or "Peterson" etc.

So our grandfather, Salem George, would have been the son of George Shaheen (I think). In that same way, our Uncle George became George (son of) Salem. And our parents were Elmer Salem and Eli Salem until early grade school days when the kids decided that the Americans took the father's last name as their own last name. From that point forward, they became Elmer George, Eli George, Hyleme George, Phillip George, etc. By this time, George Salem was an adult living in Mississippi and he did not change his name. In the same way, my mom's father Albert George would have been the son of George also.

So George Gifford Musselman is the great great grandson of three Georges. 

I think that Dennis already knew all of this and that I have confused all the rest of the non-Lebanese.
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Comments

[Lantern Bearer]

Kevin? No, no. Kevin Geroge had more hair.

LB