tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19497839.post314744636582476396..comments2024-01-05T20:06:35.574-05:00Comments on Detour Through History: Why The Name?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19497839.post-20224954563483084582010-03-05T15:25:41.382-05:002010-03-05T15:25:41.382-05:00Frances, Right back at ya! Great comment. I hav...Frances, Right back at ya! Great comment. I have lots of Scots ancestors. Wonder if they felt the way that Eliza did?!<br /><br />CathyPalmsRVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04898416117045268799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19497839.post-67104138325414341802010-03-05T11:07:22.718-05:002010-03-05T11:07:22.718-05:00Great post! Frances Hunter is my pen name; but my ...Great post! Frances Hunter is my pen name; but my real middle name is Hunter. I was named Elizabeth Hunter after my great-grandmother, who was a Scottish immigrant and was named Eliza McIntosh Hunter. I wish I had ever gotten to meet her. I understand that she was pretty tough. She worked in the jute mills of Dundee, Scotland, and saved pennies in a can towards the cause of immigrating to the United States with her husband (a carpenter on a whaling ship) and their many children. <br /><br />When she was elderly, her children offered to pay for a trip back to Scotland to visit. But she turned them down. She said, "I worked too damn hard to get away from the place."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com