Ancestry.com has a marriage record from Tennessee of a woman supposedly name Vespasia N. Washburn marrying
Thomas Bass in
Wilson, County, Tennessee in 1872. The same woman seems to be listed as "Vepasia" in the 1880 census of
Smith County, Tennessee. And she's listed as "Pasia Washburn" in the 1870 census of
Wilson County.
It certainly was used in ancient Rome, because the emperor
Vespasian's mother was Vespasia Polla.
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