Does this person actually state that Vardry McBee was a black man or that they are descencded from a white Vardry..I really doubt that a blackman was a pillar in So of the community during that date period...iin So.Carolina.!!

In this email it was stated that Vardry was a slave owner who had children by his slaves and the two lines of descendants black and white remained distant in public but privately cared for each other. Similar to many other family tales. Your are correct however that a Black man would have had to be a saint, a genius and very powerful to have any social or political standing in the south at that period of time. Ron McCandless Cdmcbee105@aol.com wrote: > > Does this person actually state that Vardry McBee was a black man or that they > are descencded from a white Vardry..I really doubt that a blackman was a > pillar in So > of the community during that date period...iin So.Carolina.!! > > ==== MCBEE Mailing List ==== > To Unsubscribe: Click on <mailto:McBee-L-request@rootsweb.com> to create > a new message with UNSUBSCRIBE as the *only* text in the message, and as > the subject. Contact Valorie <mailto:McBee-admin@rootsweb.com> with any > questions, list problems, or virus warnings. > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=702&sourceid=1237

I don't doubt that if GGGGGGrandpa Vardry McBee had slaves that,like Jefferson and even George Washington's brother,he could have had some children with the slaves. Also,I don't doubt that some relationships could have been maintained----for instance on my mother's side of the family the slaves actually stayed around and are buried in our family graveyard 30-40 years after slavery ended--they were part of the family and my grandmother told me stories that her mother told her about one of the freed slaves who used to stick around and cook and actually even attended family events until her death. It is a great story----I hope we can learn more...also I understand we have some Indian marriages that occurred in some of our families. Dean Hughson www.mcbeefamily.homestead.com ===== Dean Hughson,Las Vegas http://www.deanhughson.com http://www.eggman.cc deanhughson (chat address at http://www.aol.com/aim/aimexpress.html ) http://www.teveo.com/_go/cam.asp?ID=1049491465 (web cam) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1