-------- Original Message -------- Subject: {not a subscriber} Re: [NCJOHNST] Massengill twins Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:01:14 -0700 From: "I am who I have always been." <bevjax@earthlink.net> Reply-To: "I am who I have always been." <bevjax@earthlink.net> To: <NCJOHNST-L@rootsweb.com> References: <3.0.5.32.20001018090537.007e5a00@mail.ftc-i.net> Annie, I am not a Massengill, but I LOVE to read your stories! Bev cyberbev@earthling.net ICQ 84892128 AIM BevWmson I am planning to live forever......... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PITTMAN DATA BANK: Now 2,250 depositors, and growing! http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~bevwmson/pittmandatabank.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Life is a one-way trip .. take the detours." CyberBev, Jan 2000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Massengill/John Evans" <NICOJAK@ftc-i.net> To: <NCJOHNST-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 9:05 AM Subject: [NCJOHNST] Massengill twins > This message is in response to the following exchange: > Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 18:10:12 -0500 > From: Vickie Burris <wburris@cdsnet.net> > To: MASSENGILL-L@rootsweb.com > My family twins lines were that they were all either boyes or girls. Dad > said his two older brothers looked exactlly alike but one was left handed > and one right. Back then I guess they tried to break the left handed > children and teach them to be right handed. Please let me me know if this > was the same in your family. Vickie Masengill Burris > > Ann Massengill wrote: I am interested in the occurrence of twins in the > Massengill line. Do you know if your GWM was an identical or fraternal > twin? Have you ever heard of the occurrence of "mirror image" twins, i.e., > identical twins but one is left-handed, the other is right-handed, etc.? > The George Washington Massengill of JCNC who is my great-grandfather was b. > 12-17-1834 and d. 9-27-1912. > > > MESSAGE FOLLOWS: > > Vickie, there are some old stories I remember as a child -- I mean I'm not > that old but the stories were old when I was a child not very long ago! > One story involved twin sisters; one died in some mysterious tragic way and > the other could read her dead sister's mind, tracked down and killed her > murderer. > > The other involved "mirror image twin" brothers -- both served in war-time > (don't know which, but in the South, it's usually just "Thuh Wah", (that > is, the War of Yankee Aggression). One came home "mutilated" (and I took > that to mean he had lost one or both legs). His betrothed jilted him and > married the Twin B, who was presumably not "mutilated". Twin A was found > dead by his own hand, but the gun was in his (for the sake of argument and > my fading memory, let's say) left hand. Twin A was right-handed. Twin B > was left-handed. Twin B's wife was suspect; the twins knew they were > mirror-image and would not have made such a mistake. > > As a footnote, I recall that a great-aunt argued valiantly that Twin A > killed himself and tried to make it look like Twin B had murdered him; my > uncle kept trying to explain that you cannot change the hand you hold the > gun in after you've blown your brains out. I had the impression this woman > lived in an upstairs room and only came down for ceremonial occasions... > she may have been the wife. > > I notice that most sibs who appear by b-date or age to be twins are not > named, as so many are today, with rhyming names. They do seem to have > names that begin with the same letter, which any english lit major can tell > you is also a form of "poesy". > > Here's a clue my father gave me: People who are ambidextrous have > mirrow-image twins. Also, people who are ambidextrous are themselves > and/or have children who are what we would today called "left-brained" and > "right-brained" -- equally talented in the arts and in the sciences. He > was a doctor, trained by doctors of the 1900-vintage, and matters of the > brain were very intriguing to them. He would tend to break into other > conversations and tell us something interesting he had heard about Twins or > Brains! Apparently, there were many studies being published on both > topics. Or maybe it's just that Massengills are such an intriguing bunch! > > According to S.E. Massengill, more Massengills lived in Johnston County NC > than anywhere else. I don't know how he figured this out... our ancestors > thought they weren't finished until they had about a dozen children, no > matter where they were. Also, the Johnston County section of his huge book > seems rather miniscule, compared to the remainder. > > Daddy once hinted at is that the Massengill Drug Co.'s famous douche came > about to help prevent so many births AND additional births to parents who > were twins themselves. So if identical twins were discouraged from having > children, w/ or w/o benefit of the douche, and more Massengills live(d) in > JCNC than anywhere else, do the math. > > > annie > > P.S. I am copying this to the Johnston County NC RootsWebsite -- home of so > many more Massengills! > > > ==== NCJOHNST Mailing List ==== > Johnston County, North Carolina NCGenWeb > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncjohnst/index.htm > > ============================== > The only real-time collaboration tool that allows you and other family > members to create a FREE, password-protected family tree. > http://www.ancestry.com/oft/login.asp > >