MELUNGEON Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln

[LincolnMan]

(03-25-2016 05:20 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(03-24-2016 06:10 PM)maharba Wrote:  While doing some research for another person I came across the term Melungeon, and the claim that Abraham Lincoln was a Melungeon. I went to the net and looked around and the term Melungeon. It appears to refer to darker folks who lived in Kentucky and Appalachia and whose distant ancestry is obscure. There may be thousands of Melungions living today and very proud of their ancestry, though even they can not agree on just where it does trace back to. I wonder if Abraham Lincoln would be a melungeon on that mysterious Hanks line which has never yet really been unraveled?

There used to be a web page that discussed this possibility, but I cannot find the original page. However, I was able to locate it in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. It is here.

The article is still accessible. I just read it again. It doesn’t come to any conclusion on the subject but is still interesting nonetheless. It does claim that Lincoln was color blind. I don’t remember reading that!