Baby Names

For those of you who are unaware of the names we have picked out for Baby Jube, here they are:

• If Baby Jube is a boy, his name will be Jackson Lee. (Jerrod has been campaigning hard for "Colt Fletcher", but I highly doubt that that name will written on his birth certificate... one can dream, right?
• If Baby Jube is a girl, her name will be Harper Lee.

Yes, both middle names are the same. We have discovered that Lee is a family name on both sides of our families. For my family, it's the last name of the first family member, on my mother's side of the family, to cross the pond from Ireland to America - Mary Lee was her name, she was bringing her niece's over to America and was supposed to return to Ireland upon delivery of the girls, but something else happened. The ship that they were on was shipwrecked off the coast of Newfoundland. As the story goes, a sailor on the ship tied her and 1 of the niece's to some floating apparatus - they floated to the coast of Newfoundland, lived, navigated her way down to Pennsylvania, became a housekeeper & cook, finally settling in Massachusetts, where she married a Sea Captain named Henry DeGorville, who ended up being lost at sea, but as the Lord had in store for Mary and for the rest of us, He had a plan for her. She had several children with Henry, then grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great-great grandchildren, and now a great-great-great grandchild! Thank you Mary Lee for starting this great legacy of strong, resilient women!

As for Jerrod's side, the name Lee was the middle name of the matriarch on his mother's side of the family, Virginia Lee Sikes, who brought the Sikes family from Alabama to Alachua via cover wagons during the 1800's. The Sikes family settled in the Forest Grove community, on the same land that Jerrod & I now reside. Thank you too!