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The Celebrated Melungeon Court Case
In the "Celebrated Melungeon Case" which took place in Hamilton County Tennessee, in the 1870s, Judge Lewis Shepherd wrote that the mother of the central figure of this case, a beautiful young woman, daughter of a tenant farmer, who stole the heart of a rich man, was a Melungeon. A lot of things Shepherd wrote in his 1915 Memoirs have been speculated on by researchers for years. How much did he exaggerate, how much was fact, was the word Melungeon actually contained in the case, or did he come up with that term later? Most every researcher who has written about Melungeons has referenced the celebrated Shepherd Court case held in Hamilton County Tennessee. This has been an elusive case, sources researchers used for this case were newspaper articles or Shepherds writings on it. Having the actual court case answers a lot of these questions.
The families mentioned in this case, the Goins, Shumake, Boltons, Perkins, Mornings, Menleys, Breedlove & others, are the same people Shepherd called Melungeons and he also said to have come from the Pee Dee River area, across the mountains to now Hancock County, Tennessee, and spread out from there.
Cont. Here:
http://historical-melungeons.blogspot.com/
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http://historical-melungeons.blogspot.com/2008/05/celebrated-melungeon-court-case.html
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