This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McBee, Johnson, Valliant, Chandler, Vaughan, Calvert, Caradine, Barr, Ivy Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WQH.2ACEB/556.650.652.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Frank, July (pronounced Julie) was the daughter of Harriet Caradine, a slave, and either Bird Calhoun Caradine, her master, or Jack McBee a slave from a neighboring plantation. She was born around 1860, and had a twin brother named Alfred. July married Arthur Calvert in 1878, and bore him one child, Levanner, in 1879. July died shortly after giving birth to her child. As to her having native american ancestry. Anything is possible in that since. This family is known for being extremely mixed and it is known that Harriet was at the very least part white, and that Harriet's mother was born in Pennsylvania. Harriet was born in Tennessee around 1824. Her parent plantation is not known, but I suspect that it was a Barr Plantation. She came to Mississippi around 1841, where she mothered her first daughter. Jack McBee was born on the McBee Plantation in South Carolina. I do not have the details of his origins on hand to review, but if my memory serves me correctly, he died around 1868, before the 1870 census but not before fathering a final child in 1867. Let me know if i can be of further assistance. Ryan Neal