Mike D. wrote:
> when i was at the library here this morning i found it
closed for cleanup
> including reburnishing of the statue ofthe local
benefactress sedona miller schnebly
> after whom the town was named
> no idea what the name sedona means
> but havent ruled out the possibility of a brother
sedohtac
According to the Sedona Historical Society web site at http://www.sedonamuseum.org/sedona.html ,
when Sedona Miller Schnebly was born in 1877 in Gorin, Missouri, her
Pennsylvania Dutch mother "just thought up" the name "Sedona," for her daughter
because it had a pretty sound.
So, Mrs. Schnebly has joined the likes of Mercedes
Daimler and Edsel Ford in having an automobile named after her first name (the
Kia Sedona minivan). How eponymous!
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA