Today, I met a woman who wrote a book called The Road to the Seneca
Falls Convention. Seneca was specifically named after the Seneca Falls
Convention of 1848. I then found out that the newspaper published by the
movement was called The Lily. How perfect that my Seneca is Seneca
Lily.
I had first learned of the Seneca Falls Convention in my women's
studies class in high school. I later did a presentation on it for AP
History. When I was doing my research for the project, I thought that
Seneca would be a great name to give to my future daughter.
I just about gave it to my first daughter as a middle name, but I
didn't follow through with it. Now, I am so glad that I didn't. My
older daughter has a beautiful Arabic name to reflect her heritage from
her father. And, I did get to name a daughter of mine Seneca and use it
for her first name. In truth, I chose Lily for her middle name because
Stargazer Lilies are my favorite flowers, but what a happy coincidence!
Very nice! I do remember you explaining how you chose "Seneca." I LOVE the name by the way. There is a whole group of "ica, eca" ending names that I love but they don't work well with our last name so I never used any of them.
ReplyDeleteOn another note, I remember you in high school telling me about your oldest daughter's name. When you sent a picture of your two older kids to our alumni news and I saw the names my heart skipped a beat seeing the name you gave your daughter WAS the same name you'd talked about when we were still in high school.
Thanks for sharing.