[Granville-Hough] 26 Feb 2009 - Re: Uncle Tillman Arinder

[Trustees and Executors for Granville W. Hough]

Kendrick asked:

> The Arinders are on which branch of your family, Grandpa?

They are on my mother's branch.  She was named Nancy Elizabeth 
Richardson.  Her grandmothers were Nancy (Bowen) Arender and Elizabeth 
(Jackson) Richardson.  Her mother, my Grandma Richardson, was Mary 
Alouethea (Arender).  (Grandma's grandmother was Alouetha "Letha" 
(McCarty) Orander/Orrender. wife of Henry.).  Grandma Richardson had ten 
Arender brothers and three Arender sisters.  Great grandpa Sampson 
Arender was brother to great-great uncle Tillman Arinder.  The families 
learned to read and write some time between the Civil War and 1890.  
They were so proud of that ability that they kept the separate spellings 
of Arender and Arinder.  As you go back along the migration routes to 
South Carolina, then North Carolina, then Southwest Virginia, you find 
those two spellings, plus Orrender, Orander.  When you get into the 
Shenandoah Valley of Virginia where there is more of a German heritage, 
you find an f added to the names, and it comes out as Ahrendorf and 
Ohrendorf, and those are the variations in Alsace, a region of France
next to Germany.