Minnie Melvin is listed as "parent" in her son's birth in the North Carolina Birth Index on ancestry. Ancestry assumed the parents were all male.
Sources
"North Carolina, Department of Archives and History, Index to Vital Records, 1800-2000," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7XG3-8VMM : 25 October 2019), David James Melvin, 8 Jul 1883; citing Birth, North Carolina, United States, North Carolina State Archives, Division of Archives and History, Raleigh; FHL microfilm 102258450.
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