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To: LS

There were very wealthy sisters in Texas many years ago, whose last name was Hogg. Their father must have hated them; he named them Ima and Ura.

I'm totally not making this up.


102 posted on 03/30/2006 12:59:33 PM PST by linda_22003
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Nah, there was no Ura Hogg -- Ima Hogg had only brothers.

http://www.famoustexans.com/imahogg.htm

"Ima was named for the heroine of a Civil War poem written by her uncle Thomas Elisha and was affectionately known as Miss Ima for most of her long life."


143 posted on 03/30/2006 1:04:40 PM PST by texasbluebell
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To: linda_22003
"There were very wealthy sisters in Texas many years ago, whose last name was Hogg. Their father must have hated them; he named them Ima and Ura. I'm totally not making this up."

You are wrong. There was no Ura. Ima was real, and a wealthy, Texas philanthropist and society woman. She had three brothers, but no sister, and there was not a child in the family named Ura.

519 posted on 03/30/2006 2:18:47 PM PST by Irene Adler
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