A New Year and a New Baby

Happy New Year, Ya'll!  I am getting my things ready to go to Normangee, Texas, for the impending birth of my SEVENTH grandchild, a boy. His pleased parents, who have three girls so far, are thinking of naming him for his grandfather, my ex-husband, William Noah, and calling him Noah. I told them that William Noah was named for HIS grandparent, his mother's father, Noah Speed Williams. This was many years ago, as Noah's mother, Sara Ethel Williams, was born in  1902. They also like the name Elijah as a possible middle name. I told them that my grandfather, my mother's father, was Samuel Elijah Ellison, nicknamed "Lige", so that would be naming their new son for TWO grandfathers on each side of the family. Lige was born in 1886 and died in 1948, when I was two years old. I never knew him. He was a handsome, red-headed , charming Scots-Irishman, a school principal who spoke five languages fluently, as well as a Texas farmer.  My oldest son, the parent of the soon-to-be-born baby boy, is the spitting image of him, so it would be fitting to name their child for Lige. What a wonderful way to start out the New Year, with a new life. Ain't Life Grand?!?!!!!!!!!!