Show 0 1 n l OUR UR Y Last Name is IT VERNON VEnNoN Is Js best known to Amerl- Amerl merl V cans because of ot its with the home of at Washington on the banks of ot the Uie Potomac Potomac Mount Mount Vernon Vernoa Few pers persons Ds realize t that lat tills tr home of of Washington was named In honor pf pt William Vernon Vornon a staunch patriot with whom Washington corresponded His home was In old N Newport where h he was WL the host of ot many distinguished men during the Revolutionary period Vernon ernon Is an old English surname surn usually said to have hud had Its orl origin ln In Normandy In fact tho Vernons of at England Eng land lund claim descent from one who went to Englund with William the Norman Conqueror Se Seemingly there are ore sov sev several eral places In Normandy N or other parts of ot France that might have given Ihen rise to this surname Vernon This This like Hewett and Howlett Is from Hugh made popular as os a first name nome In Englund England and France by two or three saints of ot the name This This Is n a compound of 01 Pick Ik and und ford tord Pick here may be an nn anold anold old first name so that the name would have hove the significance l of ot Picks Pick's fo ford d dOr Or It may be lie that It Jt Is derived from pick u form of pock or pike meaning hill hili Then the name puma would Voula have the significance of at hill hili to ford rd and the first to bear beur U it would have so sp sp culled d because o of at their dwelling near ner a n place of at this description I l tit br r Newspaper Syndic 1 n |