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Martha/Muffie Namie's avatar

Terra’s voice and story is so important in this hour of history. Whether Trump and Vance lose this election or not, JD is not going away. It’s important to understand how he became the person he is and Terra is such a gifted writer and speaker, I could listen to and read her stories forever.

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Terra Vance and JD Vance both descend from Abner Alexander Vance b. 1759-1819 and Susannah Howard 1767-1850. This is Terra Vance's 4th Great-Grandparents on her father's side, and 6th and 7th Great Grandparents X2 on JD Vance's mother's side, meaning that he descends from this couple three times because he descends from son Richard David Vance on his paternal Vance Y-DNA line, as well daughter Tabitha sister to Richard David Vance who married Francis Browning two times over since their daughter Matilda married Richard Austin Vance, the son of Richard David Vance would have son Francis Marion Vance who would have son Elias Vance who would marry Salena Browning (maternal granddaughter of Hiram McCoy, mind you) who was the daughter of Miles Browning and Evaline McCoy, and paternal granddaughter of Francis Browning and Tabitha Vance, who of course was the daughter of Abner Vance and Susannah Howard. So this makes Terra and Vance distant cousins on one line. JD Vance is also cousins with me on his father's and my father's side, and you won't tell me we are 'melungeon'. Terra has a Mullins ancestor, and Mullins is considered a Melungeon surname. But more than that, she has Toler, Ellis, Belcher, Cline, Burgess- I have done her genealogy and she is very much Irish and English. There is really no need to be racist and call yourself a MARKED Melungeon when you have no idea the pain and sorrow that brings to those whose ancestors have fought against that label of discrimination. To call JD Vance a 'melungeon' when he does not share your Mullins ancestry but you do share the Vance surname, and I think you are the one bringing shame to the ancestors by calling old Abner Vance and Susannah Howard 'melungeons' who I believe were Reverends and definitely white- but to be sure even folks who would be called melungeon then or now do not want to be labeled as such.

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