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Subject: Re: [BRE] Have two books of United Brethren information
Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 22:34:36 EDT


In a message dated 5/3/2003 7:21:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:

> I too have suspected Melungeon
> roots on both sides of my family but it is hard to prove with lack of
> records
> and cover-up tactics by families. Good Luck. Todd

Hi Todd, and thanks.
Accually I was looking for information of people dying from Consumpion,
and other old words used to mean TB. Below my ramblings is a portion of
another email which sparked my curiousity,
and so I was wondering about the TB deaths, and the connection of people
finallly leaving the valley. Wondering why the migrations took place when
they did.
There is a great debate among melungeon researchers about the health
issues and in particular if we do have medterrian descent, and the diseases
which go with it. Some of the people are afraid if we talk of health issues,
we will never get hired or have health insurance, other people have joined
another melungeon mailing list which does speak openly about the health
issues. So after all these years it is still a big debate over this.
For myself I do have health issues for I am HLAB-27 positive which causes
ankylosing spoldylitis, scleraderma, pisorisis, and reactive arthritis , and
some think, juvinalle arthritis.
This is caused by the gene mutation coming down from either the mother or
the father and neighter of my parents have been tested so I do not know which
side of the family it came from, the Irish Osage, or the German, Scots,
Melungeons. ( they like to blame each other )
Good guess however, I would have thought that was what someone was looking
for as well. And as long as the books are open to those pages, I would like
to know the reasons for all the deaths in Handcock county for that 20 year
period. :-)

A




In ALEX STEWART PORTRAIT OF A PIONEER John Rice Irwin says:

" It's interesting to note that some specialization, starting hundreds
of
years ago in Europe, had made no advacement whatever on Newman's Ridge.

............."

He goes on to tell about Alex's uncle taking his daughter, Mary, to Nal
Mullins in Blackwater with scrofula and how Nal " put her hand on the
girl
and said a few words and directly she had her doctored."



TB's Assault on Humanity
TB has had many aliases throughout history: The ancient Greeks called it

PHTHISIS (to waste). The swollen glands of the neck were called
SCROFULA. It
was called THE KINGS EVIL  in medieval times because newly crowned kings
of
England and France were believed to have powers to heal TB with their
touch-------
The most familiar term for TB, at least to our grandparents and
great-grandparents was CONSUMPTION

1860 MORTALITY CENSUS HANCOCK COUNTY TENNESSEE

Mary Collins  13 KINGS EVIL

Dicy Boland age 60 consumption-Aug
Isabel Church age 39 consumption-Dec
Mary Herron age 8 mo  consumption-Apr
Shelvy Roberts 21  consumption-May
Tabitha Watson  66 consumption-Apr
John Overton 73 Scrofula-Apr
Susan Oliver   50  Phthisic


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