"No idea what the name Sedona means". No idea either. But Schnebly has a meaning: The little neb. Somehow, you Anglosaxons have lost the "sch" in front of neb, while we Teutons keep it as a treasure: Schnabel. And Mrs. Schnebly tells everybody - through her name - that she came from Switzerland. Hope she has become happy in Sedona.

Wolfgang

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Von: Lowell G. McManus [mailto:mcmanus71496@...]
Gesendet: Montag, 13. Dezember 2004 02:02
An: Boundary Point
Betreff: Re: [BoundaryPoint] sedona az

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

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