Cashion a Reid Cashion Professor Lynn M Raymond WRT 1103 5 October 42015 ‘The Truth behind the Name My name is Reid Anthony Cashion I, and its origins are nothing tSpecial {am named aifer my father Reid Anthony Cashion, but be goes by Tony. In the past Ihave asked my parents ‘why dey chose to name me after my father and they’simply said because they belived I could follow in his footsteps, but also to start a new naming tadiion within the family. In both sides of ny family there has only been one naming tradition and that is on my mother’s side. Their tradition isto give al the females either as thee middle or fist the name of Elizabeth. My smother did this with my sister na her Sarah Elizabeth but she wanted a tradition forthe boys wel My lst name onthe other and has a deper past tt, My family has Hived in Nit America for devas ow. My ancestors on my father's side that lam aware of date ack 16 the carly 1700's when they came over from Ireland and sted inthe colonies My family has dane some rscarch into our heritage and have found out a ot of interesting things about the cig ofthe name Cashion, Cashion comes from the surname cs- meaning cry. Ths adjective sccurately describes my Family because we all have very thick curly hair, nly after we allow it to grow past an inch oro. This simame has many variations within th Ireland and Scotland regional interconnected wih in one wey or another, As ¥ continue to do researc into my family wee Lhope to find out more about the exgin of not only my father’s family name of Cashion but also my mother's maiden name of Johnson. ye