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The names as the record spells them

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1834–present

Huggart on the stones; the variants ride along, printed, never silently normalised. The family's name was spelled Huggart, Huggard, Huggert and Hughart across the record; the gravestones at Porter-Rea read Huggart, and that form governs this section, with the variants printed where their carriers print them — both 1881 obituaries are headed "Huggard," and the DNR's own people page splits inside itself, heading one section "Andrew Huggard" and another "Samuel Huggart." The same discipline holds for the settlement's other names: Manuel was also recorded as Manual, Maniel, Mannel and Mankel — the Bureau's review prints "Hardy Manuel" in its text and cites the archaeology report under "Hardy Manual Cabin Site," and Karst writes Manual throughout — and Boone appears as Boon, as in Andrew's grandson Lorenzo Boon. No form has been regularised anywhere in this section; a reader searching the deed books will need them all.

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Source: The names as the record spells them, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/black-history/names-as-the-record-spells-them/