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I went to this article to learn the story of the orign of S.R.'s name. In all the reading I've done, it's never even mentioned. I have always imagined he changed it during the fiery pre-secession days, but now I'm wondering if that wasn't his given name. If anyone knows the circumstances, I think it deserves to be included in the article. It's a "hook"!
E. Smith Chattanooga
Esdawg 14:03, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
General Gist had TWO brothers. One named Independence, and because it would be irresponsible to have independence without Constitution, his brothers name was Constitution....and because it would just be plain wrong to have independence and constitution without States Rights that was General Gists given name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.214.24.157 ( talk) 00:34, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
The elder Gist was a patriot of the American Revolution. He reportedly named his son "so that he would never forget his politics" or something like that. I was going to add it to this article but couldn't find the citation. I have read two different things about his brother - one names the brother as "Independence" or "Independent" and the other a more pedestrian name which escapes me. Or perhaps he had more than one brother, but I couldn't find reference to that in my quick search.
But S.R. Gist's real name was "States Rights Gist" as given to him by his parents.
On a separate note, I believe that a large part of this article has been plagiarized from another website - www.aboutfamouspeople.com. The source is cited, but the text is an EXACT COPY, which isn't cool. I'm not sure how to report the plagiarism. Srajan01 ( talk) 07:32, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
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I went to this article to learn the story of the orign of S.R.'s name. In all the reading I've done, it's never even mentioned. I have always imagined he changed it during the fiery pre-secession days, but now I'm wondering if that wasn't his given name. If anyone knows the circumstances, I think it deserves to be included in the article. It's a "hook"!
E. Smith Chattanooga
Esdawg 14:03, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
General Gist had TWO brothers. One named Independence, and because it would be irresponsible to have independence without Constitution, his brothers name was Constitution....and because it would just be plain wrong to have independence and constitution without States Rights that was General Gists given name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.214.24.157 ( talk) 00:34, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
The elder Gist was a patriot of the American Revolution. He reportedly named his son "so that he would never forget his politics" or something like that. I was going to add it to this article but couldn't find the citation. I have read two different things about his brother - one names the brother as "Independence" or "Independent" and the other a more pedestrian name which escapes me. Or perhaps he had more than one brother, but I couldn't find reference to that in my quick search.
But S.R. Gist's real name was "States Rights Gist" as given to him by his parents.
On a separate note, I believe that a large part of this article has been plagiarized from another website - www.aboutfamouspeople.com. The source is cited, but the text is an EXACT COPY, which isn't cool. I'm not sure how to report the plagiarism. Srajan01 ( talk) 07:32, 24 January 2008 (UTC)