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Lest We Forget ; Our Melvins and Kin by Lionel Dane Melvin NCMcKay Home "Lest" Contents Page Book Index-> A-F, G-Mc, M-Q, R-Y <--Pg. 068 Pg. 070--> 69 son, George W. Monroe. son, Archibald William Monroe. dau. Harriet J. Monroe. dau. Anne E. Monroe. dau. Sarah E. Monroe. dau. Nancy C. Monroe. dau. Margaret E. Monroe, married a Melvin. grandchildren of JANE MELVIN named in her husband's will made 19 March 1877 and probated in Bladen County N.C. 6 December 1878: Jane Hunt; John Hunt; Robert Hunt; Gaston Hunt. JEAN OSWALD MELVIN (1921- ) Son of LEON DEXTER MELVIN (1875-1948) and Mae Susan Sykes of Bladen County, N.C. Born 4 July 1921 in Turnbull Township, Bladen County, lives in Cumberland County, N.C. Married Mag- gie Lou Fisher, dau. of Walter Lalister Fisher and Rosa Bell Allen of Cumberland County. JEAN operates several farms in Bladen and Cumberland Counties, N.C., and for about 20 years was Cumberland County Manager of the federal farm program in that county. He takes great interest in county, state and national affairs and is looked upon as a leader in his area, at one time, chairman on the Cumberland County Democratic Party. He was a close friend of Governors Terry Sanford, Rob- ert Scott and the present governor, Jim Hunt. Maggie Lou, his wife, was the daughter of one of the largest tobacco farmers in the county and can manage the farms as well as her husband when he is absent on business. There is never a sickness in the family in which Maggie Lou fails to volunteer her help. Children of JEAN OSWALD MELVIN and Maggie Lou Fisher: dau. Karen Jean Melvin, born 4 Feb. 1960 in Fayetteville, North Carolina. JOHN MELVIN (1762-1853) Son of DANIEL MELVIN, Immigrant, (1708-c1786) and Jane Thomas, daughter of FRANCIS THOMAS and Jenette Wining, whose father, JOHN WINING, received a grant of land in Bladen County, N.C., in 1735 (Colonial Records). Born in Bladen County in 1762, died in Bladen 10 March 1853 (Fayetteville Observer). His will was probated in May Term Court of Bladen County in 1853. In Sept. of 1852, he applied for Revolutionary War veteran's pension but died before pension was granted. He was engaged to marry Mary Jane Nutt whom he met when his father settled "upcountry" for a short time, but they were forbidden to mar- ry by their parents; whereupon they made a mutual pledge to never marry if they could not have each other. JOHN was true to his promise. He never married, but he had two common-law wives who bore him two large families, however, for his child- rens' sake he circumvented his vow in later life by way of having enacted in the North Carolina General Assembly a spec- ial act making his conjugal affairs legal and giving his children his name and making them his legal heirs. No social stigma seems to have been attached to this arrangement, for his children and grandchildren married into the leading fami- <--Pg. 068 Pg. 070--> |
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