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From: "Tari Adams - Manager - Northern Medical Systems" <>
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] THERE WERE GIANTS IN THOSE DAYS
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:10:45 -0800
References: <20030219015656.38652.qmail@web14807.mail.yahoo.com>


Yes, I know that some were tall, my Minors were one and I know some of
the Goins were in my imediate family. My mother used to go back home
to WV and TN as a child and remembers the woman in the family a good 6
feet. She herself is 5'10" which being born in the 40s was tall for a
woman. My brothers are both 6'5". I would assume Helen that you are
right that it was a NA element. The Minors carried a strong NA
element, my grgrgrandfather Guilford Minor when he married his first
wife Polly Goins they were both listed as colored on the marriage
license. I am assuming it is because they were considered NA by the
license office. I do not think it is a Melungeon thing as much as a NA
thing. My maternal line is definetly Melungeon as I share the same
line as Jack.

Tari
Minor,Sizemore,Roberts,Goins,Sears,Anderson,Hopkins,Meece,
Mounce,Cox,Blevins,Stamper,Wallen,Stapleton,Moore,Crockett and more...

"Yigaguu osaniyu adanvto nigohilvi nasquv utloyasdi nihi"
"May the Great Spirit's blessings always be with you"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Melungeon Movement" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] THERE WERE GIANTS IN THOSE DAYS


>
> Cleland,
>
> Thank you. I think you missed something, I just thought it was
interesting that Tennessee had the largest people in the world
centuries ago. People over time have excavated the mounds and did find
a large "race" of people buried inside, along with their worldly
belongings.
>
> One mound excavated in Ohio had 2,000 pipes inside; these pipes are
kept in a museum in England.
>
> In Marion County, WV there lives people of grand stature. When I go
to the Annual Fair, I see these tall 7-8 ft. groups of men and women.
Another odd fact about WV, no Indian tribe claimed the area but did
use it to gather food.
>
> But I have no theory here just curious.
>
>
>
>
> Cleland Thorpe <> wrote:
> Were these folks Melungeons or have I missed something?????????????
> Cleland
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Melungeon Movement"
> To:
> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 8:44 PM
> Subject: [Melungeon] THERE WERE GIANTS IN THOSE DAYS
>
>
> >
> > Will T. Hale
> > A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and
representative
> men in commerce, industry and modern activities
> > Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1913, 2792 pgs.
> >
> > THERE WERE GIANTS IN THOSE DAYS
> >
> >
> >
> > PAGE 339
> >
> >
> >
> > There is excuse for this chapter in a history of Tennessee. The
abnormal
> has ever had an attraction for mankind The Book of books is complete
with
> references to and accounts of giants. When we come to the fact pf
John
> Sharpe Spencer, one of the hunters traversing the primeval forest of
middle
> Tennessee and leaving behind him such prodigious foot-prints that a
wanderer
> of his own race, coming suddenly upon them, fled in terror and
> consternation, we do not wonder that the Hebrews sent to spy out the
land of
> Canaan were probably out of breath when they returned and with
popping eyes:
> "And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the
giants:
> and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in
their
> sight." Samson probably held the attention of the crowd wherever he
> appeared, no matter how many potentates were around. Not a little of
the
> charm of the duel of David and Goliath lies in the fact that the
latter was
> a giant. As in fancy we gaze on the scen!
> > e, we contemplate but for a minute the short but comely,
red-haired,
> blue-eyed Shepard, then turn and look long at the big Philistine,
carelessly
> handling the spear with its staff like a weaver's beam as he roars
across
> the valley: "I defy the armies of Israel this day." No doubt the
sixty
> cities of Basham were less inclined to treason or even mere protests
against
> misgovernment because of Og, their ruler, strutted some nine feet
tall
> throughout his kingdom.
> >
> >
> >
> > Likewise, characters of great stature have figured in literature
and
> tradition from time out of mind. Hesiod knew his readers when
writing the
> story of the Titans, and before his time Homer winked knowingly as
he
> fabricated those thrilling tale of Cyclops and Polypnemus: the would
prove a
> drawing card until the end of time.
> >
> >
> >
> > Aside from this universal interest in the abnormal, two or three
giant
> were prominent in taming the Tennessee wilderness-Isaac Thomas and
John
> Sharpe Spencer made records of usefulness worthy
> >
> >
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