Olive Abigail Klingaman [7366] ³⁶

  General Notes:

OLIVE ABIGAIL KLINGAMAN (she went by Abigail or Abby/Abbe) I have come
across her maiden name spelt: KLINGMAN - KLINGMAN - KLINMAN - CLINGAMAN -
CLINMAN - CLINGMAN -CLINAMAN.

Julie






This is also from Bessie Cook-Rothrock:
KLINGAMAN HISTORY
The Klingaman name came down to us with Cornelius Klingamn, from Germany.
This name still exists in Germany and is spelled Klingamants. Pronunciation
is Kling-ah-man. Foreign names in the United States go through two changes,
either a translation, as Schwartz to Black, Weiss to White, or the spelling
becomes Anglicized as Schwartz becomes Swartz or Swarts, and Weiss becomes
Wise. Another change is apt to occur by spelling the German pronunciation in
English.
So we lost somewhere a final N from Mann because of the English spelling of
'man'. Later some Klingaman settled in a Yankee settlement and the Yankees
were unable to pronounce his name correctly, saying KlingERman, which in
time became the spelling there. (Yankees still say 'Idear for Idea).
A man who came from Bovania, Germany, said his name was spelled Klingamann
in Germany and that the Klingamanns came from Switzerland in 1650.
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Olive married Kile/Kyle [7365] [MRIN: 2886].

Olive next married Michael Longaker [7447] [MRIN: 2919] about 1850.