Great great Grandmother, Iantha, are you
really Native American? Are your people Shinnecock from Long
Island? Where did you meet great great grandfather Reuben Melvin?
Those are my first 25 words for Iantha.
It was told to me that we have 'Native
Blood' and it comes through Iantha.
Who said it? When did they say? How
did they know?
I was told by my
sister Sonya and cousin Wilma. However, both were going on vague memories of
what they were told, when they were young. Their telling me was perhaps over 50
years later.
At least she is not reputed to be the
proverbial Cherokee princess and the accounting doesn't speak of high
cheekbones and straight hair.
There's such an age
disparity. I wonder of the circumstances of their meeting. If we go by the
family bible, Reuben is already about 48 years old when Iantha is born.
