The return of Forrestine! Weird names, or archaic names, names that were once popular, but have fallen out of favor? Just for the hell of it, I entered Forrestine, Evealie, and Wertha into a search engine. According to the white pages website, as of February 2011, there were 115 Forrestines in their listings, 23 in Tennessee, 2 Evealies, both in Oregon, and no Werthas. I did find an article about an astronomer named Wertha Pendleton Cole, but that Wertha was a man.
Captions from top to bottom. "Lucille, friend, Laura, & Otis" "Otis & Clarence" "Clarence, Otis, Jud & the boy who drove Jud's car" "Forrestine & Dale, Shelter house Lancaster, O, Rising Park, 1931" Lancaster is a small city in Ohio, and Rising Park is it's main park. And finally, "Eva Anthony, Marie Fisher, Elsie Anthony, & Forrestine Kristol in George's ice wagon" Another quick note on names. Eva's handwriting isn't the best in the world. Forrestine's last name sometimes appears to be Kristol, sometinmes Krostol, or Krostel. I've chosen Kristol as the most likely for no other reason that I've run across the name before.
I'm not so sure I would consider Forrestine to be a weird or archaic name... considering it's my name.
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