From: James Adams 

> I am sincerely grateful to my older brother, now deceased, for being
> born first.  'Cause he was named after my father, Hershel Olis
> Barnett.  If my brother had been born female instead, then I would
> probably have been stuck with that name.

I'm grateful I was never named for a grandfather.  One was Harold Ernest
Patterson and the other Hoyle Ernest Adams.  I could have ended up an
Ernie.

As an aside, one went by Pat and the other was always H.E.

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