Need a Name?: Over 2600 Intriguing American Headstone Names from 1800-1930

Over 2600 Intriguing American Headstone Names from 1800-1930. The cut-off dates, 1800 through 1930, came about because so many headstones older than 1800 are badly weathered and can no longer be read. And the names after 1930 became more and more familiar to me.

Collecting names has been a hobby of mine for many years. And as often happens, a hobby has turned into something else. In this case - a book. My husband is on the Board of Directors of an old country cemetery where many of his early ancestors are buried. When I started going to the cemetery with him on clean-up or maintenance days, I began to notice some of the unusual names on some of the older headstones, and I started writing them down in a little notebook. And that's how it started. Over the years we have taken many afternoon drives through the country so that I could walk through the old cemeteries looking for unusual names.