After looking at the lineage chart in the last post, one might wonder about the middle name of  John Napolean Frierson.  The document below written by Nelson Frierson c. 1948 will clarify that JNF was named for Napolean Bonaparte and that his father,  John James Frierson, obviously admired the Frenchman a great deal!  I wonder if the book is still in the possession of Nelson’s grand nephew, William DeLancey Frierson III, who was born in 1947?  A nice thank-you note from WDF III’s grandmother Alice Wilburn Frierson is shown to the right.