ethnicity Redbones , Carmel Indians Melungeon pron en m l nd n or muh lun jun or muh lun jun is a term ... presented at Melungeon Heritage Association Third Union, 20 May 2000 at University of Virginia s College at Wise, Virginia, Accessed 14 Mar 2008 ref DNA testing of Melungeon descendants has been limited, but the Melungeon DNA Project , which has made its results public, so far shows overwhelming ... identified as Melungeon and considered so by researchers. Definition The ancestry and identity ... to North Carolina and Virginia. The U.S. census has a category for Melungeon, tabulated under Some Other ... of Appalachian families traditionally regarded as Melungeon are generally European American in appearance ... to light skinned African American . Other Melungeon individuals and families are accepted as white ... should be included under the term Melungeon. Almost every contemporary author on this subject gives a slightly different list of Melungeon associated surnames, but the Irish surname Collins and British ..., Minor, Mise, Mullins, and several others although not all families with these surnames are Melungeon ... on which families are included under that designation. The original meaning of the word Melungeon is not obscure ... records that the earliest Melungeon ancestors migrated from Virginia, as did their Anglo American ... or North Carolina, the main places of Melungeon origin. blockquote Beginning about 1767, some ... families identified as Melungeon ancestors were members of the Stony Creek Primitive Baptist Church ... members. The earliest documented use of the term Melungeon is found in the minutes of this church .... The earliest known Melungeon in Northeast Tennessee was Millington Collins, who executed ... County in 1844. ref name HancockCounty Contemporary accounts documented that Melungeon ancestors ... was the Melungeon related Ridley family, listed as such on a 1767 Pittsylvania County, Virginia ... century, due to their intermarriage with white families, Melungeon surnamed families began to be classified ... more details
The Melungeon DNA Project is a genetic study of people who have Melungeon ancestors according to historic records. Participants genealogical suitability for inclusion is determined by a group of Melungeon researchers. The study was started in 2005 by Jack Goins, author of Melungeon And Other Pioneer Families . Goins is of Melungeon ancestry and has done extensive research on the group. Participants must descend in a direct paternal line for the Y chromosome testing, or a maternal line for the Mitochondrial DNA mtDNA testing. The Melungeon DNA Project volunteer administrator has no commercial affiliation with any profit making organization and receives no compensation for services or expenses involved with the project. Group 1 Core Melungeon At present, Bunch , Goins, Gibson surname Gibson , Minor , Collins surname Collins , Williams surname Williams , Goodman surname Goodman , Denham , Bowlin, Mullins surname Mullins , Moore surname Moore , Shumake, Boltons , Perkins , Mornings, Menleys, Breedlove , Hopkins and Mallett , and name variations, have been designated core families by the project organizers. More names may be added as this is an ongoing research project, and these names will be in Group 1 . Group 2 Melungeon related. If the above names are in the participant s family but are not in a direct line to enable Y DNA or mtDNA testing, participants will be placed in Group 2 Melungeon related. Preliminary results of the Core Melungeon DNA Project are available here http www.familytreedna.com public coremelungeon index.aspx?fixed columns on Y line Results http www.familytreedna.com public coremelungeon mtDNA results To summarize, most individuals tested to date have been shown to have Y and or mtDNA haplogroups that are considered Northern Europe European and or African . This is consistent with historic research of Paul Heinegg, who in Free African Americans of Virginia ... several of these public projects, but particularly the Melungeon , Lumbee , Waccamaw , North Carolina ... more details
Chestnut Ridge may refer to Chestnut Ridge, Bedford County , a mountain ridge in Bedford County, Pennsylvania Chestnut Ridge, New York , a village in the United States Chestnut Ridge Park , in Orchard Park, New York Chestnut Ridge people , a Melungeon community residing near Philippi, West Virginia, USA Chestnut Ridge Laurel Highlands , in the Laurel Highlands of southwestern Pennsylvania Chestnut Ridge Aberdeen, Maryland , is a home on the National Register of Historic Places Disambig de Chestnut Ridge ... more details
No footnotes date May 2010 Image Replace this image female.svg right Lisa Alther born July 23, 1944, in Kingsport, Tennessee is an United States American author and novelist . Her first name is pronounced as if it were spelled Liza . Biography She graduated from Wellesley College with a B.A. in English literature in 1966. After a brief time in the publishing industry, she moved to Hinesburg, Vermont to raise her daughter. According to Ms. Alther, she wrote two novels, a host of short stories, and received hundreds of rejection slips between age 16 and 30, before Kinflicks was accepted for publication. Alther is the author of five novels, Kinflicks , Original Sins , Other Women , Bedrock , and Five Minutes In Heaven , as well as a small number of published short stories and many magazine articles. Alther s most recent book, published in spring 2007, is a nonfiction work titled Kinfolks Falling Off the Family Tree the Search for My Melungeon Ancestors ISBN 1 55970 832 8 . Bibliography Kinflicks 1975 Original Sins 1981 Other Women 1985 Bedrock novel Bedrock 1990 Five Minutes In Heaven 1995 Kinfolks Falling Off the Family Tree Kinfolks Falling Off the Family Tree the Search for My Melungeon Ancestors 2007 Reviews Other Women briefly noted in The New Yorker 60 49 21 January 1985 94 See also Melungeon External links http www.lisaalther.com Lisa Alther Official Home Page http www.artvt.com writers alther p altherbio.htm An Autobiographical Essay http www.artvt.com writers alther p altherintrws.htm An Interview with Lisa Alther wikiquote Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata Persondata NAME Alther, Lisa ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Novelist DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1944 PLACE OF BIRTH Kingsport, Tennessee Kingsport , Tennessee , United States DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Alther, Lisa Category 1944 births Category Living people Category People from Kingsport, Tennessee Category American novelists Category American short story writers Category Wellesley College a ... more details
Sealock is a proper family name surname that originated within the continental United States . This surname is relatively rare. ref http www.ancestry.com learn facts fact.aspx?fid 7&ln Sealock Sealock Family History Facts 1920 Bot generated title ref ref http www.ancestry.com learn facts fact.aspx?&fid 6&ln Sealock Sealock Families Living in England and Wales in 1891 Bot generated title ref Ancestry of the Sealock family points in various directions including England , Ireland , Scotland , Prussia , Belgium . Genetic testing of Sealock family members and research such as the Melungeon DNA Project suggests at least tri racial or Melungeon heritage among those on the East Coast of the US. Several versions of family stories exist that say Thomas the immigrant arrived in America as an orphaned small child and did not know his last name. Someone, perhaps the ship s captain, gave him the surname Sealock, or child of the sea. Thomas married Susannah Cooper in 1763 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. They later moved to Loudoun County and Fauquier County, Virginia. Their known children were James, John, William, Thomas, Samuel, Robert, and Mary. Descendants of this family are outlined in The Sealock Story Kendrick Grant Jackson & Joan D. Hackett, 2000 which can be found in several libraries. While it is known that Thomas, the immigrant, did not live where Melungeons settled, at least some of his descendants did. A male descendant of William Sealock, son of the immigrant Thomas, had an ethnic DNA test taken ref http www.AncestryByDNA.com ref in October, 2007. Test 121151 observed 40 European ancestry 25 Middle Eastern 20 Native American 8 North African and 7 South Asian. This mixture is common for a Melungeon profile. As a result, further DNA testing is needed to specify those genetic components that derive from Thomas, the immigrant, and those that are the result of the family s blended American heritage. Public figures from this family include Brigadier General Neal Sealock , ... more details
The Carmel Indians pronounced Car mul are a group of Melungeon s who have lived in Highland County, Ohio Highland County in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio . They are descendants and relatives of the Melungeons of Kentucky , also a group of mixed race ancestry. Anthropologists described both groups as among the little races and as tri racial isolates . ref http eric.ed.gov ERICWebPortal custom portlets recordDetails detailmini.jsp? nfpb true& &ERICExtSearch SearchValue 0 EJ070417&ERICExtSearch SearchType 0 no&accno EJ070417 Edgar T. Thompson, The Little Races , American Anthropologist , 74, 5, 1295 13, Oct 1972 , accessed 29 Jul 2008 ref The Carmel Indians migrated from Kentucky to Ohio during the 19th century. The mixed race Melungeons often called themselves Native Americans in the United States American Indians , as did people outside the group, who tried to explain their physical characteristics. This was one way they could evade some of the racial barriers of Antebellum era antebellum and post Civil War years. Outsiders called them Indians to explain aspects of the differences between their appearance and that of their mostly European neighbors. ref http www.melungeon.org node 111 Springer, Craig, The Saga of the Carmel Indians , Country Living , August 2006, 32 33 ref They found an adaptive way to evade some of the pressures that intensified in some areas after the Civil War of the binary division of society into black and white races. As Paul Heinegg 1997 has documented, the earliest ancestry of eight of the nine common names among the Melungeons in Magoffin County, Kentucky , go back to African Americans free in Virginia before the American Revolution . Most of the free African Americans were children of early unions between white women, indentured ... presented at Melungeon Third Union, May 2002, University of Virginia s College at Wise, Virginia ... and Donald B. Ball, North from the Mountains A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement ... more details
ref blockquote Melungeon The first known appearance of the word Melungeon also spelled Melungin .... These have come to be considered core Melungeon surnames. The meaning and origin of the term Melungeon have been debated. Years later, these and other families who clustered around Newmans Ridge in Hancock County, Tennessee were labeled as Melungeon by a Nashville journalist named Drumgoole ... is credited with popularizing many elements of the Melungeon legend at a time when her cohorts ... 2010 Recent DNA analysis, as documented in the Melungeon DNA Project whose coordinator is Jack ... to by the ethnonym Ramapo Mountain Indians . See also Melungeon Black Irish Ramapo Mountain ..., Wayfaring Strangers The Black Dutch, German Gypsies, or Chicanere, and their relation to the Melungeon ... more details
multiple issues context August 2010 grammar August 2010 Orphan date April 2010 The Turks of South Carolina are related to the Free Moors of South Carolina and Brass Ankles who lived near Stateburg. They claim not be Black. ref cite book last Taylor first Rosser H. title Ante Bellum South Carolina. A Social and Cultural History location Chapel Hill publisher University of North Carolina Press date 1942 ref History It is believed these people come from an Eastern background. Some of the first mention of them is from General Thomas Sumter, when they served under him. ref name Sass cite book last Sass first Herber Ravenel title The Story of the South Carolina Low Country Volume II location West Columbia publisher JF Hyer Publishing Co. date 1956 ref They were Scott and Joseph Benenhaly believed to come from surname Ben Ali . General Sumter put into their possession land near his plantation after the American Revolution. ref name Sass The Turks of South Carolina today include other surnames than Benenhaly, some of them are Oxendine, Scott, Hood, Ray, etc. ref http listsearches.rootsweb.com th read SCROOTS 2004 10 1096856861 ref It is believed and documented in genealogy records that quite a few of their ancestors married American Indians. There has also been intermarriage between them and other mixed groups of South Carolina like the Brass Ankles. See also Melungeon References Reflist Further reading cite book last Ray first Celeste coauthors James G. Thomas, Jr. title The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture location Jackson publisher University of Mississippi Press date 2007 cite journal first Calvin last Trillin title U.S. JOURNAL SUMTER COUNTY, S.C. TURKS journal The New Yorker date March 8, 1969 page 104 url http www.newyorker.com archive 1969 03 08 1969 03 08 104 TNY CARDS 000289901 ixzz0e94oeOXI Category Ethnic groups in the United States Category People from South Carolina Category African Native American relations Category Turkish diaspora ... more details
Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name AgriDustrial Type Album Artist Legendary Shack Shakers Cover Agri dustrial.png Released April 13, 2010 Recorded 2009, Nashville, Tennessee Nashville , Tennessee Genre Psychobilly Length Label Colonel Knowledge Producer Mark Robertson bassist Mark Robertson Reviews Allmusic Rating 4 5 ref name AMG cite web first J. last Poet title Review AgriDustrial url Allmusic class album id r1738138 pure url yes publisher Allmusic accessdate 14 April 2010 ref Last album Swampblood 2007 This album AgriDustrial br 2010 Next album AgriDustrial is an LP album LP released by the Legendary Shack Shakers on April 13, 2010. ref http www.jambase.com Articles 21568 Legendary Shack Shakers Album.Tour.Free Download JamBase ref Track listing Melungeon Melody 0 34 Sin Eater 3 13 Sugar Baby 1 57 Nightride The Ballad of the Black Patch Riders 2 36 Dixie Iron Fist 2 31 Two Tickets to Hell 2 57 God Fearing People 2 56 Greasy Creek 2 03 Hammer and Tongs 4 04 Hog Eyed Man 1 54 Dump Road Yodel 2 11 Hoboes Are My Heroes 3 18 Everything I Ever Wanted to Do... 2 43 The Hills of Hell 1 42 The Lost Cause 2 34 Killswitch 0 42 Personnel Colonel J.D. Wilkes vocals, harmonica, banjo, piano, organ, Jew s harp Mark Robertson slap and bowed upright bass, electric bass, guitar, background vocals Duane Denison guitar, Prepared guitar prepared guitar Brett Whitacre drums and percussion References reflist Category 2010 albums 2000s rock album stub ... more details
located near the heart of Melungeon country amidst the Blackwater Creek Valley. Over the next forty ... site. In 2000, the 19th century log cabin belonging to Melungeon moonshine moonshiner Mahala ... Church, completed in 1899 In the early 19th century, prominent early Melungeon settler Vardeman ... 210px thumb Mahala Mullins Cabin The Mahala Mullins Cabin was once home to legendary Melungeon ... unable to arrest her. ref Jim Callahan, Lest We Forget The Melungeon Colony of Newman s Ridge ... more details
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Donald Panther Yates also published as Donald N. Yates or Donald Neal Yates is an American genealogist , author and DNA investigator. He was born in Cedartown, Georgia of European and Choctaw Cherokee ancestry and earned a doctorate in Classical Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1979. Yates speaks on a variety of genealogical topics, especially concerning Melungeon descent in Appalachia . He was noted in 2008 for his testimony in a probate case where Alice Elizabeth Tiffin a.k.a. Eliza Presley has claimed that she is Elvis Presley s half sister and sought to be declared the daughter of Vernon Presley . Expand section date December 2010 Published Works Books The Bear Went Over The Mountain . 1995 Panther s Lodge The Eighth Arrow Right, Wrong and Confused Paths According to Tihanama Elder Wisdom . 1997 Panther s Lodge Los Lunas Mystery Stone and Other Sacred Sites of New Mexico . Sun Publishing Co., 2006 When Scotland was Jewish DNA evidence, archeology, analysis of migrations, and public and family records show twelfth century Semitic roots . with Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman, McFarland & Company McFarland , 2007 ISBN 0786428007 Visits to Sacred Sites . Panther s Lodge 2007 Articles A Discussion of William Verelst s Trustees of Georgia Painting . Journal of Cherokee studies 1997 DNA Haplotyping and Diversity An Anthropogenealogical Method for Researching Lineages and Family Ethnicity, International Journal of the Humanities ISBN 2 2043 55. Guide to finding matches in world databanks and interpreting genetic information in terms of history and recent emigration studies. Romancing the gene making myth from hard science . with Elizabeth C. Hirschman from Handbook for Qualitative Research Methods in marketing, editors Russel W. Belk, John F. Sherry. Emerald Group Publishing, 2007 ISBN 9780762314461 References Citation style date December 2010 http www.commercialappeal.com news 2008 oct 08 vernon presleys estate reopened womans claim shes http ... more details
of people of Melungeon ancestry, who are believed to be of mixed European, African, and Native American heritage. The Vardy Community School , which provided state mandated education for Melungeon children ..., Mattie Ruth 1997 . My Melungeon Heritage A Story of Life on Newman s Ridge . Johnson City, Tennessee ... more details
also Melungeon DNA Project References Reflist Further reading Virginia Adventure Roanoke to James ... in the Roanoke Voyages http melungeon historical society.blogspot.com Melungeon Historical Society ... more details
unreferenced date January 2009 Powell Mountain or Powells Mountain is a mountain ridge of the Ridge and valley Appalachians of the Appalachian Mountains . It is a long and narrow ridge, running northeast to southwest, from about Norton, Virginia to near Tazewell, Tennessee . It separates the Clinch River basin and the Powell River Virginia Powell River basin of Powell Valley . Its elevation averages between 1,500 to 2,500 feet 457 to 762 meters , with its highest points above 3,000 feet 914 meters . The highest point is Bowling Knob 3,557 feet, 1,084 meters , near the northern end of the mountain. Powell Mountain is about 60 miles long 97 km . It is broken by one stream only, the North Fork Clinch River . North of the river, the mountain is less well defined as a ridge and merges with Stone Mountain Virginia Stone Mountain and other mountains near the headwaters of Powell River. The southern part of Powell Mountain is paralleled on the south by Newman Ridge and Stone Ridge. Between Powell Mountain and these ridges is Snake Hollow and the headwaters of Blackwater Creek. This area is known for its historic Melungeon population. Powell Mountain is crossed by U.S. Route 58 , called Daniel Boone Trail Highway . The original Wilderness Road crossed the mountain nearby, at Kanes Gap. Beside the large water gap of the North Fork Clinch River, there are numerous wind gap s. Some of the named gaps, from south to north, include Fugate Gap, Gibson Gap, Mulberry Gap used by State Route 63 , Bryson Gap, Sally Gap, Hunter Gap used by State Route 70 , Kanes Gap, Elisha Lick Gap, and Beaverdam Gap. South to North Description Powell Mountain s southern end is in Claiborne County, Tennessee . On the north side of the mountain flows Little Sycamore Creek, and on the south side, Big Sycamore Creek. The two join just south of the end of Powell Mountain, then flowing into the Clinch River and Norris Lake the reservoir behind Norris Dam . To the northeast, Powell Mountain crosses Hancock C ... more details
to regional African heritage. United States Melungeon testing Main Melungeon DNA testing Melungeon ..., have examined the genetic makeup of families historically identified as Melungeon . Most results point ... provide additional Melungeon research materials with Y DNA and mtDNA tests, any test will allow comparisons with the results of current and past Melungeon DNA studies. General interest Cohanim ancestry ... more details
themselves or were known as Indian, Portuguese or one of a variety of terms, such as Melungeon. In some ... American descendants of the Saponi. They also identify as Melungeon , a historic mixed race ... more details
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Infobox U.S. County county Louisa County state Virginia seal map Map of Virginia highlighting Louisa County.png map size 225 founded 1742 seat Louisa, Virginia Louisa area total sq mi 511 area land sq mi 497 area water sq mi 14 area percentage 2.67 pop estimate yr 2009 pop 32,926 density km2 20 web www.louisacounty.com Louisa County is a county United States county located in the Commonwealth U.S. state Commonwealth of Virginia . As of 2009, the population was 32,926 ref http www.coopercenter.org demographics . Weldon Cooper Center Population Estimates Retrieved January 26, 2011 ref . The county seat is Louisa, Virginia Louisa GR 6 . History cleanup section date March 2009 File St John s Chapel Louisa County Virginia.jpg thumb left 200px St. John s Chapel, near Boswells Tavern, Louisa County, Historic American Buildings Survey Louisa County was established in 1742 from Hanover County, Virginia Hanover County . The county is named for Princess Louise of Great Britain , youngest daughter of King George II of Great Britain George II , and wife of King Frederick V of Denmark . Patrick Henry lived for some time in Louisa County on Roundabout Creek in 1764. Henry was being mentored at that time by the Louisa County magnate Thomas Johnson lawyer Thomas Johnson the representative of Louisa County in the House of Burgesses . In 1765, Patrick Henry won his first election to represent Louisa County in the House of Burgesses . At the end of the eighteenth century and in the early nineteenth century, numerous free mixed race families migrated together from here to Kentucky, where neighbors began to identify them as Melungeon . Citation needed date April 2010 The Virginia Central Railroad was completed through Louisa County in 1838 1840. During the American Civil War Civil War , it was an important supply line for the Confederate armies. As a result, several significant cavalry actions took place in the county, particularly one fought at Battle of Trevilian Station Trevilians in ... more details
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