Hello,
I am looking for the true spelling of Elizabeth <what ever> Frampton who was the wife to Benjamin F Frampton. I have seen her name spelled the diffrent ways listed above. the last two are best interpertations on the pension forms.
They were my grt grt grandparents. their son Claire Tossup was my grt grandfather. I would just like to know how it was really spelled.
Wrightnour has it one way, Claire T's obit has it another, then the pension forms have it two ways...
Thanks

In genealogy, spelling variations abound. Officials often recorded immigrants "sounds like" name. Today's standardized spelling is the one you should use, but also record the variants in your genealogy software.

Yeah I know I was just hoping that someone would be able to narrow it down to one or two...
Thanks
tish

I hear you! The name game has stymied my own genealogical research. Just my opinion, but I don't put much stock in old newspaper obits as editing wasn't a priority in those days. I lean toward tombstone inscriptions taken from church records -- the churches usually knew their parishioners better than anyone. Pension records? It sounds like the recording clerks had dyslexia -- it's a coin toss. :)

Hello. I've wondered the same question.

I have Freeman / Foreman CAMPBELL, b.1852 Ringgold Twp., Jefferson co., PA; son of Elijah CAMPBELL and Mary Ann BROWN.

1860 census - Freeman age 8
1870 census - Foreman age 18
1880 census - F. P. age 29
1900 census - Freeman age 28
1914 Father's obituary - listed as Freeman

Any one out there know of this fellow? I would appreciate hearing from you!

Thanks,
Marsha Allen
Tempe, AZ

Elizabeth (Fireman) Framptons fathers head stone has the name as Fireman. In 2001 I visited several cem., one of them being Zion Cem. in Indiana County Pa., where Elizabeths Father, Mother, Stepmother and a few sibblings are buried. The head stones read Fireman. Photos taken of them were lost but I do have a photo of Benjamin and Elizabeth Framptons grave in Mt. Carmel Cem. in Clearfield Co.. My grandfather was Albert Merle Frampton and he married Alma Gertrude Miller. Clair T Frampton was my grandfathers uncle and Maude Miller was my grandmothers cousin. Through my Framptons it was said Elizabeth could not read or write but very little if any and another spelling on our side was Fairiam.