Manly Names of Decatur
Decatur Metro | October 18, 2007Andrew Sullivan recently asked readers of his blog, The Daily Dish, to submit the most “manly” names they’ve ever come across. While many readers fabricated names like Slab Bulkhead, Fridge Largemeats, and Punt Speedchunk, one reader from our town of Decatur, Georgia wrote in…
“I manage a local history archive in Decatur, Georgia, and two years ago I did a short genealogical research project on a local man named Straiton Hard III. I have never met the man, but when I heard the name I had to find out if it was legit. I have attached my one-page summary report documenting that this is the real name of a real person. The research showed that the name “Straiton” is a variation on one of his ancestral names: “Stratton.” Also notice that Straiton Hard III was a member of the class of ’69. ”
Class of ’69 at Decatur High School?
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I ran into that also in searching for Decatur news, but elected to pass on it.
Straiton’s second cousin, Augusta Howard Warren, passed on to her reward back in January, as noted in the Albany paper:
http://www.albanyherald.com/obituaryarchives/2007/obituary012607b.htm
Anybody who gives their kid a name like this should be publicly flogged!
Thinking more about it, if the first guy named Straiton Hard named his son Straiton Hard, Jr; and Jr named his son Straiton Hard III; something about the name must have worked for them.
Maybe it was like the Johnny Cash song about a man named Sue. His Dad said he named him that to make him tough.
I had a customer named Rod Biggerstaff.
More than that. The Messers. Hard had a steel fabricating business they named, “The Straiton Hard Steel Erection Company”. They called my previous employer, wanting paid for “putting in the flagpole in your recreation area”. I never met SR iii, but Jr. was a nice guy.