Melungeon-L Archives

Archiver > Melungeon > 2003-02 > 1044887781


From: "Winkler, Wayne" <>
Subject: RE: [Melungeon] Swan Burnett
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 09:36:21 -0500


Joanne writes: "Where is it written they were anywhere else? Where and
when?"

http://www.geocities.com/ourmelungeons/news2.html

OTHER SETTLEMENTS

In the American of Sept. 15, Dan W. Dairy wrote of the Malungeons, in
part, as follows:
"Several families are still to be found in Smith, Wilson, Rutherford,
and Davidson Counties. There is nothing in their family names to give
the student of ethnology a clue to their origin. In a locality in Wilson
County known forty years ago as 'Malungeon Town', the most common names
were Richardson, Nickens, and Collins. In Rutherford County not far from
Lavergne, the principal Malungeons were Archers, Lanterns, and
Blackmans. One of the latter family has sold fish in the
north end of the market house in this city (Nashville) for many years,
and some of the same family reside a few miles out on the Nolensville
Turnpike. "A pretty fair speciman of the Malungeon tribe is a young
fellow named Bernice Richardson, now serving a life sentence in the
state prison for self-confessed complicity in the murder of M.T. Bennet
of Lebanon.


This thread: