Stanley (Hurst) Reed (1901 - 1981)

Born 9 Sep 1901 in Owsley, Kentucky, United States

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Died 14 Sep 1981 at age 80 in Dearborn, Indiana, United States

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Biography

Stanley was born in 1902 in Owsley County, Kentucky. Stanley has an vast early Colonial multi-ethnic American ancestry that includes some historically significant categories. These include several Revolutionary War Veterans (both Patriot and Tory), several Civil War Veterans (mostly Union), several early Jamestown Settlers, and several Native American and other Melungeon sources (including Yuchi/Proto-Creek, Cherokee Matriarchs, European Fur Traders, and perhaps even marooned survivors of the Spanish Luna Expedition of 1559-1661, led by Tristán de Luna y Arellano).

It is now thought (after extensive research) that she partially descends (through her mother and maternal grandfather) from English, German and Scottish Cherokee fur traders and their Native American common law wives (and several generations of mixing and re-mixing). This description alone is certainly a gross oversimplification of her full multi-ethnic heritage. Stanley was (based upon the DNA evidence of some of her descendants) also of partial Melungeon descent (through both her father and mother), with distant Spanish/Portuguese Marrano (Sephardic), West African, North African, and most likely Yuchi/Proto-Creek, Saponi, Occaneechi, and/or other Catawba (Eastern Siouian Language Family) or Lumbee (Lost Colony of Roanoke) related Native American Tribal Ancestors. As with many of the purported Melungeons, there isn't much definitive documentation to corroborate this assertion, as her ancestors lived on the fringes of early Native American and Colonial American society. Other than small amounts of DNA evidence, subjective interpretations of the photographs of descendants or relatives, and speculative naming connections to known historical white Indian trading families and their mixed-native descendants, there is very little historically recorded evidence to back up these claims. She passed away in 1981 in Dearborn County, Indiana. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Personal recollection of events witnessed by Brian Riehle as remembered 27 Aug 2019.

https://www.pensapedia.com/wiki/Luna_expedition#:~:text=The%20Luna%20expedition%20was%20a%201559%20Spanish%20venture,Puerta%20de%20Santa%20Mar%C3%ADa%20colony%20on%20August%2015.

https://www.pensapedia.com/wiki/Trist%C3%A1n_de_Luna_y_Arellano