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From: "Talitha Risen" <>
Subject: Re: [POCSOUTH-L Genealogy] No White Response
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 12:51:00 -0500


Now that's cold. I've found in my research that being Indian is cool but
having any ties to AA's....less than what they would want on their docket.


>From:
>Reply-To:
>To:
>Subject: Re: [POCSOUTH-L Genealogy] No White Response
>Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 00:39:19 EST
>
>Dear List:
>
>I recently wrote to one of my white family member's and this was their
>reply.....
>
>Re: CORBIN/CHAPMAN/CHATMAN Family Reunion News Letter
>
>Chaps;
>
> Your letter, of 16 September, was addressed to my daughter-in-law.
>She
>received it, but neither she nor my son understood it's meaning or it's
>importance to you and the other blood kin you represent.
> Our branch of the CORBIN family were completely unaware that there was
>to
>be a National Family Reunion and there would be a serious conflict of
>schedules should we desire to attend. Our branch of the family derives
>from
>E. CORBIN (date and place of birth are unknown but believed ti have come
>from
>up-state Alabama and there is no knowledge of siblings). He met and
>married
>Amanda (surname believed to have been TOWNSEND) who was a Cherokee Indian
>tribewoman. He died during a flu epidemic in North Georgia during the year
>of 1899 in Gilmer County, GA near the village of Ranger.
> ECT...,ETC..., so far as I know, none of my immediate ancestry was
>wealthy enough to have owned any slave(s) and the attitudes of my closer
>blood kin would seem to indicate they would not have owned any had they
>been
>wealthy enough.
>
>Respectfully,
>
>W. P. CORBIN
>
>
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