ID# 1290:
I. McDougle letter to A. Estabrook, about research on mixed race marriages for Mongrel Virginians (5/3/1924)
Date:
1924
Pages: (1|2|3)
Source:
University of Albany, SUNY, Estabrook, SPE,XMS 80.9 Bx 1 folder 1-3

1290. Sweet Briar College Sweet Briar, Va. Economics and Sociology Ivan E. McDougle Answers to Your Questions in Letter of May 2, 1924 [obscured] and [obscured They say they were married a year ago but there is no record of it. Probably merely mated. [obscured] is copper colored a typical Isshy. [obscured] is as white as any white girl but a low grade moron of bad type. [obscured] AND [obscured] They ran off to North Carolina and were married. She was a fine looking copper colored Isshy with straight Indian hair. [obscured] was absolutely white and belongs to a good white family in this county. [obscured] and [obscured] [obscured] was the daughter of [obscured] and [obscured]. Today [obscured] told me that [obscured] and [obscured] has six children, as follows [obscured], [obscured] (gone to Georgia), [obscured] (living in Lynchburg unmarried), [obscured], [obscured] and [obscured] (the latter two living with [obscured] at Elon. (Will see them Tuesday) and get ages of all. [obscured] and [obscured] [obscured] gave me the data regarding all the children of [obscured] and [obscured] the father and mother of the [obscured] above. She says there were six children [obscured], [obscured], [obscured] who married [obscured], [obscured], [obscured] who married [obscured], [obscured] who married [obscured], [obscured], and [obscured] who married [obscured]. IN OTHER WORDS THE CHILDREN WHICH WE HAVE OF [obscured] AND [obscured] ARE RALLY THE CHILDREN OF [obscured] THE SON OF [obscured]. [obscured] says that [obscured] and [obscured] only had one child [obscured] who married [obscured]. What do you think of that? [obscured] prior ro[sic] marriage however had two boys [obscured] and [obscured]. The [obscured] above who married [obscured] died in 1922. His widow [obscured] lives at Big Island, Va. He was married twice. His first wife was [obscured] the daughter of [obscured] and [obscured]. [obscured] [handwritten marginalia indecipherable] daughter of [obscured] who married [obscured]. Her father [obscured] was the sone of [obscured]. He was married twice. First to [obscured] in 1895 and second to [obscured]. One child by each marriage. [obscured] by the first and [obscured] by the latter. [end]
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