Benjamin
Franklin White
This is a
picture of Benjamin Franklin White and his wife Thurza Golightly White.
In the
nineteenth century, people in north Georgia pronounced words ending in
“a” as if it were “y”. (I myself have heard the pronunciation
“Georgie” for “Georgia”.) I have evidence from the census that the
family pronounced “Thurza” as “Thurzey”.
My cousin Donald Stephen
Clarke (
--Charles Wells, 2011
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