This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Fly.2ACEB/626 Message Board Post: I grew up in the Tunnel Hill/ Westside/Gordon Springs Communities. My Grandfather John Albert Masters b.1873 GA d. 1957 Whitfield Co., m. Lula Griffin b. 1873, lived in Mill Creek bur: Griffin Cemetery, Mill Creek.. His father was James Alexander b. 1841 N.C. d.12-17-1908 Whitfield Co.,GA [some evidence b. Macon Co or Burke Co] Three Masters, John Albert, Minerva [Minnie], & Edna m. 3 Griffin brothers & sisters making my Mother Ruth Gertrude Masters double lst cousins to the Griffins in Tunnel Hill, Rocky Face and Dalton. The Griffin Family have been thoroughly researched BUT can find nothing more than what I have re: MASTERS. There was a relative - "Uncle" Robert Masters in Calhoun, Ga., and "Uncle Walter & Aunt Zula ? ? Masters Redwine of Redwine Cove were relatives. I could not connect the Masters that had the 'tire company' and the others in Dalton to our family. None of the older Masters-Griffins remember hearing their elders talk of their parents, etc. John Albert lived with us in his later years. He told me many times that he was Black Dutch. Have read all I can about the Black Dutch and the Melungeons. John Albert was a small man, red hair and piercing blue eyes when he was young; genteel and enjoyed life; played a harmonica and jew's harp & sang little ditties. It is unusual to find only 3 children in a family in late 1800's, were there others in NC? Need any information about other Masters relatives in GA or NC. I live in Huntsville, AL and go to GA [Dalton & Blairsville] whenever I can. [I attended Westside H.S., worked in Courthouse for many years, my husband taught school at Valley Point H.S. & Eastside School.]