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From: Barbara Ellison <>
Subject: Fw: [Melungeon] THERE WERE GIANTS IN THOSE DAYS
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 15:19:40 -0600


Oops..meant this to come to the list..Sorry..
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara Ellison" <>
To: "Tari Adams - Manager - Northern Medical Systems"
<>
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] THERE WERE GIANTS IN THOSE DAYS


> I would think it was more the African element that accounted for
> tallness..Indians, before mixing, were rather short, as many still are,
> whereas Africans have the height,,,
> I'm a Goins, and I'm 5'9...my mother is 5'2 as was her mother, but my
> g-grandmother was 5'8....my aunt on my father's side was 6'...and they
were
> tri-racial too, from all evidence...
> B.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tari Adams - Manager - Northern Medical Systems"
> <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 11:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [Melungeon] THERE WERE GIANTS IN THOSE DAYS
>
>
> > 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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