Talk:Langdon Cheves

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While most of your information on Cheves is correct, or at least subject to interpretation, on one point, the pronunciation of his last name, you miss entirely. Having spent a good portion of three or four years researching the Cheves family as first a master's thesis, then a doctoral dissertation, and having met some of the Cheves family descendants, I would suggest you revise the listed pronunciation to CHIV-vis, as listed in Correct Mispronunciations of Some South Carolina Names  by Claude and Irene Neuffer, c. 1983, University of South Carolina Press.

Carmel E. Chapline, M.A. The Citadel, 1992

Two errors
The Encyclopedia entry on Langdon Cheves has 2 errors. First, Cheves is pronounced Chivis, with accent on first syllable. Langdon Cheves was my great-great-great grandfather, and I am named for him, as well as several others before and after me. There are also many still around named Cheves. The second error is his wife. She was Mary Elizabeth Dulles, of the family for whom Dulles airport was later named. Your encyclopedia says Dallas. The following site shows a portrait of her with her full name: http://www.gibbesmuseum.org/recent1.html  (this is the Gibbes Art Gallery--her portrait was donated recently.) - Langdon O.  10/3/2004