I, too, am kin to Reeves from the VA/WV area who claimed unproven Native blood, even though there descendants were dark-skinned, dark-haired, etc. Is there a place I can compare my family tree to yours? I am a Johnson from Halifax county, VA. All of my paternal line are dark skinned, dark hair and blue eyes with a very specific nose. I really enjoyed reading your article, and hope to learn even more in the future. Melungeon origins Any new Ideas? So then we need to go to our trees Bunch shows up as a Melungeon last name. A lady invited me to a revival at her church. The study found the truth to be somewhat less exotic: Genetic evidence shows that the families historically called Melungeons are the offspring of sub-Saharan African men and white women of northern or central European . Wright. Like Like. (LogOut/ Thank you for your time in reading this. Im researching my Berry family from Hawkins /Tennesse and Virginia . MY Grandmaw was Janie Perkins on my Momas side. His name was James Turner born 1791 in Russell, VA. Is it possible he was Mulugeon? This page was last modified on: Thursday, 01-Jul-1999 13:32:47 MDT, RootsWeb is funded and supported by You are very welcome, Taking a DNA test might very well help. I guess meaning that I have far far less matches in R1b as compared to the majority of testers. Please contact me if you have any information you would like to share or questions. We are finding out all kinds of things about our heritage that we never knew. My great grandmother was Leeann Cox and it was said she had Indian blood. Bennett. Tally, Taylor, Thompson, Tolliver, Tuppance, Turner, Ware, Watts, Weaver, White, Whited, Wilkins, Williams, Williamson, Willis, Wisby, Wise, Wood, Wright, Wyatt, Wynn, Monacan surnames of Beverly, Branham, Johns, Pinn and Terry. I just came upon this site. My grandma also removed warts, used scripture to stop bleeding, blew the fire out of a burn. 18 of those being in the US all with my last name or variants and very distant matches. Jordan-Son of Gilbert Gibson. Senator named John Sherman Cooper who was my mother-in-laws first cousin. When I asked why my mother was so dark, I was told that it was because she had Cherokee blood. I descend from Reeves coming into Tennessee via Virginia. from my grandmother Burton. I will soon be 74 and just have forgotten where I have put a lot of things. People that have looked at my results say that they are out of the ordinary. Graham. Other relations are Chavis and Locklear which are frim the Lumbee Indians.HELP! my father's last name is King but that is not a Melungeon name but Brown is. I always hear we were romani. I never realized that tri-racial folks as these even existed. Dare. To the contrary, Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman's research indicates the earliest settlers . The Majority of my ancestors are from The Appalachians. . If anyone knows anything concerning the melungeons from Grayson County, Virginia. Love recognizes no barriers. In Callaway County and Randolph County Missouri, known Melungeon surnames in the community are listed on Census records, Minor, Gibson, Hicks, Hix, and more. North American Indian ancestors include people from the tribes of Powhatan, Mattaponi, Monie, Nansemond, Rappahanock, Pamunkey, Chickahominie, Cherokee (Buffalo Ridge) and Choctaw. maxg, Nov 28, 2007 #22. LUCAS, MADDOX MAGGARD MAJOR MALE MALONE(Y) MARSH Its Brent Stanley aka Peppy my Louisiana Redbone name. God Bless. My siblings and I and my children are the only living biological descendants of this line as far back as my maternal grandparents generation if not farther. Hi My family is of the Evans of SC. reaves/osteen/lawson. Melungeons ( / mlndnz / m-LUN-jnz) are an ethnicity from the Southeastern United States who descend from Europeans, Native American, and sub-Saharan Africans brought to America as indentured servants and later as slaves. He was buried in Arlington, Virginia. His son Moses Bass b.1778 Duplin, N. Carolina d.1845 Bear Head Creek, Starks, Louisiana is my 3rd G-Grandpaw. Melungeon/Indian Genealogy By Marion Pezzullo April 08, 2005 at 12:29:40. I took a DNA test and we had Portuguese, as well as West African ancestry that we were unaware of, but unsurprised (my daughter took the test too). carol warren 2/21/11. Robert K Thomas mentions an offshoot of Lumbees settling in Lincoln Co, Asheville and Macon Co NC in the link below. Page, Paine, Patterson, Perkins, Perry, Phelps, Phipps, Pinder, Polly, Powell, Powers, Pritchard, Pruitt. In 1997, Brent Kennedy published The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People - An Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America. These laws required anyone with one drop of African blood to be classified as black. My Clarks were Portuguese/Croatan. They were from tennessee and mixed but no paper trail to show that. Some of the most prominent surnames that have been claimed as potentially associated with a Melungeon identity include Bowling (Bolin), Bunch, Chavis (Chavez), Collins, Epps, Evans, Fields, Francisco, Gibson, Gill, Goins, Goodman, Minor, Mise, Moore, Mullins, Osborn (e), Phipps, Reeves (Rives, Rieves, Reeves, Reaves), Hall, Hammon, Harmon, Harris, Harvie/Harvey, Hawkes, Hendricks/Hendrix, Hill, Hillman, Hogge, Holmes, Hopkins, Howe, Hyatt. Thank you so much, in advance, for any consideration and for what you are bringing to others!!! Brown. Good afternoon, You have so much work put into this. They were from Middlebourne WV. After receiving my Y resilts I came up with only 27 matches. Had always been told a great great grandma was Native-Cherokee but both my fathers and my own DNA shows minimal to no Native. I and everyone else in my family has run into issues finding the parents of Jane Taylor who Married Beniah MacKnight. Also, I am related to the Bolling which go back to the Randolph and then to the Carters, and Hill last names. And from Chancery records digitized by the Virginia State Archives and on-line for Louisa County he appears to have . Surname is Turner. Ramey, Rasnick, Reaves/Reeves, Revels, Richardson, Roberson/Robertson/Robinson, Russell. I have always been the odd duck in my family. The pages wont let me open them . Langston, Lasie, Lawson, Locklear, Lopes, Lowry, Lucas. Co. Kentucky. linda mckee 12/16/08. You present a hard nut to crack but not impossible. Jack Goins is the patriarch of Melungeon research. Hello, I was wondering if you could help me more with my roots. In the heart of Appalachia in the southern United States, an isolated, dark skinned people known as the Melungeons, are challenging the accepted version of modern America's earliest history. My husband is a Buford, Collins, Conner. Then she leaned over and whispered Its okay, you can come. Learn more. I have also done a DNA test at the request of a distant relative to try and connect those with my last name and variations of it. Family is from WVA named McCumbee but I now find he was from NC and it seems it was Cumby/Cumbo/. I have been wondering if we are Melungeons. Cynthia Millican 2/06/01. Can you give me access to your family tree? And then there was Mama, the youngest. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. He is the Hawkins County, TN archivist, has written 2 books on Melungeons, "Melungeons and Other Pioneer Families," now out of print, and " Melungeons, Footprints from the Past .". I wish I could prove anything but I know it is a long time family claim. Her mother was Elmeda Johnson who died in childbirth,her father Jim cogdill went to ww1 and her grandparents raised her, family stories have suggested her mother was NA and Ive seen the name Luna johnson in my search once , it suggested that Luna johnson was her grandmother or great grandmother, all my grandmothers sons look very Hispanic in old photos but a lighter skin tone,say lighter than a Mexicans but quite a bit darker than a regular Caucasian,she her self had what Ive heard described as very ruddy complexion but to me she looked pure cherokee. It is part of Ancestry.com but the site is free. I think I solved the mystery. Melungeons are descendants of people of mixed ethnic ancestry who, before the end of the eighteenth century, were discovered living in limited areas of what is now the southeastern United States, notably in the Appalachian Mountains near the point where Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina converge. So glad I could be of help. The Bollings go all the way back to Eastern Virginia in the 1700s. My grandmother was adopted and sadly was a victim of the Tennessee Childrens Home Society and was stolen from her family. USA Surnames: Allen. Knowing it could be a false positive or perhaps true, I have pursued that info. Webster (1962, 1122) described the Melungeon as "a member of a dark-skinned people of mixed Caucasian, Negro, and Indian stock, inhabiting the Tennessee mountains."5 Davis (1963, 16) identified the Melungeons as "dark-skinned, reddish- brown complexioned people [who were] supposed to be of Moorish descent, neither Indian nor Negro, but . Email: [emailprotected]. Stay tuned! BENNETT BERRY BEVERLY BIGGS BOLEN BOLLING BOLTON BOONE BOWLIN What an interesting article. Micajah Bunch was part Melungeon and . Compared to the sophistication of genetics in the second decade of the 21 st century, Melungeon DNA testing in the 1990s was rather simplistic. I am seeing several surnames from my sides. My grandmother is Bessie Zackery and her mother was Elizabeth Collier or Dicey Elizabeth Collier and her mother was a Mary Ann Norris. Havent heard back from George yet, when I do Ill be sure to let you know! My DNA test at age 80 found my paternal family..and every surname on the site. 1 It is now known that DNA samples can be contaminated by contact by other persons with the sample, or even DNA attached to . Thank you for your response! I was looking to see if anyone that is connected to the Jones line. Clarks, Coopers, Saunders and Pruitts. The only line I think is Melungeon is this single Goins line, which became "fully black" when one racially ambiguous Goins man whose family had been "free born" for generations married an enslaved black woman in the generation before the Civil War. I have the knot . Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. I can possibly help if you connect to Sylvaneous Brewer, b 1812-1815 in Claiborne County, Tennessee, and lived in Lee County, Virginia, from 1850 to circa 1900. Hall, Hammon, Harmon, Harris, Harvie/Harvey, Hawkes, Hendricks/Hendrix, Hill, Hillman, Hogge, Holmes, Hopkins, Howe, Hyatt. As time permits my intention is to research as many of these families as I can. They were listed as white on census, but Im at a dead end before 1850 census, a Daniel Boone is listed as the father, and the only other earlier record I can find is a Daniel Boone in Amherst, VA that fits his birth year, but listed black. I have noticed that it can be difficult to discern skintones in old black and white photos unless some one was very pale or very dark skinned depending on the photo.I was that way too, until I moved to Vermont 20+ yrs ago, the 9 month long Winters have taken their toll but a week of 80 degree sunny days and bam its back, LoL, lots of blue eyes and some green to, I have brown but its a pretty light colored brown, I grew up in the 15th from time to time(name comes from long ago, instead of a county they were numbered districts or something to that effect) my family also looked quite a bit different than most of the people in the grassyfork/ delrio/ Hartford tn area. Brent Kennedy based his primary genetic proof on a 1990 study of blood samples from 177 Melungeon descendants taken in 1969. We do belong somewhere after all. Hi. Now to find the link to the Indian Nation. We are most likely cousins as I have jones/hall/hill/clarks/browns all in my direct bloodlines. My name is Relaeh and this journey has been wild. Campell, Carrico, Carter, Casteel, Caudill, Chapman, Chavis, Clark, Cloud, Coal/Cole/Coles, Coffey, Coleman, Colley, Collier/Colyer, Collins, Collinsworth, Cook(e), Cooper, Cotman, Counts, Cox/Coxe, Criel, Croston, Crow, Cumba/Cumbo/Cumbow, Curry, Custalow. So interesting! I wont be attending, as I live 3000 miles away, but it might be useful to you who live near Virginia. This is my email: All of the people with that last name probably came from the same last name when they came here to the U.S. My husband had a distant relative to contact him about 2 months ago about her relatives. Native American descendant. Rumors of Indian heritage, a great grandma that ran a hotel for coal miners in WV and family from Kentucky, WV , VA, OH and NC. "Price emphasis on the existence of a group is fundamental to studying the genealogy of social isolate groups, as . Interview your folks and any elders still alive. I have lots of Bass surnames including Aaron Bass of Bertie, NC. What do you have on the BARKERs, my grandfather on my fathers side was GEORGE WASHINGTON BARKER. Her father (my grandmothers great grandfather) was from Kentucky and his grandfather, Calloway Bunch came from Bedford, VA according to Ancestry. Thanks Ms. Gray! They were FPOC as early as the mid 1700s. These families settled in Lincoln Co and are mentioned in the Indian Commission Affairs and in a report by Robert K. Thomas. What are your Stallard and Sizemore ancestors? I would love to talk with you and compare notes. Do you have any information? Of course, these surnames are common names in America, and are only considered "Melungeon" names in the areas where Melungeons live. Enjoying The Company While On TheJourney. My ancestral lines take me to Muskogee (Creek) in Georgia/SouthCarolina ending in Oklahoma. My Grandfather was Cleo Berry Son of Lydia Price and Calvin Berry. Jan. My mammaw was a Smith , heard they Indians in there blood line. I am researching my family.actually that of my husband and children. Aakster Dutch. Some of the more common surnames, or variations thereof, having been identified so far as having Melungeon origins are: Adams, Adkins, Allen, Allmond, Ashworth Jack, a Melungeon descendant through several ancestors, expected that his Y paternal . Sometimes DNA tests hold surprising results, results that the individual didn't expect. I appreciate all that you are doing. Dad claimed their was Cherokee on his side but I have found no proof. Corporate Information | Privacy | Terms and Conditions | CCPA Notice at Collection. About Us; Staff; Camps; Scuba. Right now I am researching for someone else and I came across a rumour that Faith Parker (b. My great grandfather is Harris Brown, a Melungeon, and also has Portuguese ancestry, however I don't have information past his father John Brown who married Eliza Ann Jenkins Richardson a . 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