Comments on: The similarity of last names http://www.blackmarks.net/2009/12/09/the-similarity-of-last-names/ "The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story." -- Ursula K. Le Guin -- Writer, Reader, Amateur Interneter, Father and Life Chronicler. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:25:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jim Mathis http://www.blackmarks.net/2009/12/09/the-similarity-of-last-names/#comment-248980 Jim Mathis Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:26:13 +0000 http://www.blackmarks.net/?p=1524#comment-248980 Apparently just before I moved to South Dakota twenty-plus years ago, a man named Mathis killed his wife. Unfortunate timing for yours truly. And for the record, I was born in Oklahoma and raised in Iowa and as far as I know, I have no convicted murderers in my family. Apparently just before I moved to South Dakota twenty-plus years ago, a man named Mathis killed his wife. Unfortunate timing for yours truly. And for the record, I was born in Oklahoma and raised in Iowa and as far as I know, I have no convicted murderers in my family.

]]> By: m!les http://www.blackmarks.net/2009/12/09/the-similarity-of-last-names/#comment-248895 m!les Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:15:41 +0000 http://www.blackmarks.net/?p=1524#comment-248895 I've come to discover that a clan of Rausch live in the Hoven, SD, area. Like you, I'm often asked if I'm related to "any Rausches from Hoven", and, like you, I offer the requisite, "No, but I hear that a lot." Unlike you, the two Rausch factions were once a single unstoppable army. That family was torn asunder when earthquakes literally ripped the Rausch apart, putting cousins on each side of a massive canyon. That canyon was The Grand Canyon. And that family was The Rausch Family (but I already pointed that out to you). I’ve come to discover that a clan of Rausch live in the Hoven, SD, area. Like you, I’m often asked if I’m related to “any Rausches from Hoven”, and, like you, I offer the requisite, “No, but I hear that a lot.”

Unlike you, the two Rausch factions were once a single unstoppable army. That family was torn asunder when earthquakes literally ripped the Rausch apart, putting cousins on each side of a massive canyon. That canyon was The Grand Canyon. And that family was The Rausch Family (but I already pointed that out to you).

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