Audie & Josie Bell

Watching a documentary on [name]Audie[/name] [name]Murphy[/name] (WWII hero). It appears his name was actually [name]Audie[/name], not short for something. Different. I love his mother’s name-[name]Josie[/name] [name]Bell[/name]. [name]Josie[/name] [name]Bell[/name] [name]Killian[/name] [name]Murphy[/name] was on the gravestone so again appears to have been the given name. What’s everyone think of the names?

[name]Audie[/name] is the type of car I have. hahaha. I kinda like it…not [name]Murphy[/name] though. It’s definetely different.
My name is actually [name]Josie[/name] [name]Lynn[/name], so i’m biased and I say that I like the name! (:

I don’t like [name]Audie[/name]. I like [name]Audra[/name]. I really like [name]Josie[/name], but would use it as a nickname for [name]Josephine[/name]. [name]Bell[/name] is okay, I would never use it though since I already have a [name]Bella[/name].

[name]Audie[/name] and [name]Josie[/name] [name]Bell[/name] make me think of mint juleps on the veranda! :). Some of his siblings have interesting names too. I got this on Wikipedia: “He was the sixth of twelve children, two of whom died before reaching adulthood. His siblings were, by age in descending order: [name]Elizabeth[/name] [name]Corinne[/name] ([name]May[/name] 5, 1910 – [name]March[/name] 28, 1980), [name]Charles[/name] [name]Emmett[/name] “[name]Buck[/name]” [name]Vernon[/name] (b. 1915 – d. 1919), [name]Ariel[/name] [name]June[/name], [name]Oneta[/name] (b. 1918 – d. 1919), J.W. (b. 1920 – d. 1920), [name]Richard[/name] [name]Houston[/name] (b. February 16, 1926 – d. 1954 or 1959), [name]Eugene[/name] [name]Porter[/name], [name]Verda[/name] [name]Nadine[/name], [name]Willie[/name] [name]Beatrice[/name] “[name]Billie[/name]”, and [name]Joseph[/name] [name]Preston[/name] (b. February 19, 1935 – d. [name]January[/name] 29, 1968).”

Thanks for the info :slight_smile:

When I read the post…all I saw was Audibel…I don’t know… maybe not so much