Double trouble

The Miller family of Alamance County, North Carolina caught my eye during indexing, because they had not one, but two sets of twins: Alene and Irene, age 19, and Haywood and Elwood, age 10.

Was it a rule that if you had twins in the 30s and 40s you had to give them rhyming or matching names? As a twin myself, I'm thankful that trend skipped my family!

I'll have more on the Millers a little later, as the sheer number of children intrigued me...