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From: Barbara Ellison <>
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] mulatto designation
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:35:07 -0600
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Well, chances are he's related, but without a first name I can't
say...Overstreet isn't my direct line, so haven't researched them...Just
have what cousins gathered on them...
B.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve & Cindy Hartman" <>
To: "Barbara Ellison" <>; <>
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] mulatto designation


> I knew a Dr. Overstreet in Houston, TX, but I don't know his first name or
> if he is still living. He was my grandmother's surgeon back in 1972.
Worked
> at Methodist Hospital in the Texas Medical Center.
>
> Cindy
>
> > My Overstreets start with Richard H. Overstreet, born around 1873, and
he
> > married Matilda DeSpain..
> > Their kids were:
> > Maggie, Samuel A., Mamie Lee, Headley Pope, John Henry, George Marion,
and
> > Alice..All born between 1892 and 1907
> > I don't know where Richard Overstreet came from, but Matilda DeSpain was
> > born in Texas, and all the kids were as well...
> > B.
>
>
>

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