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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Tri-racial Isolates Revisited

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Posted: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 3:50 pm
By Glenn Chavis Community columnist
I recently received a call from a professor emeritus at Jackson State University who is working on a project dealing with a Tri-Racial Isolate group called Turks, who once made Sumter County, S.C., their home.
One day these Turks just disappeared from Sumter, he said, and he is trying to find out if any were buried in a graveyard at Bethesda Baptist Church in Sumter.
Even though I had nothing to offer, he did share plenty of information with me regarding Tri-Racial Isolates, which include Chavises.
This topic has always been of interest to me because the Shepherd/Chavis family started with black blood, then mixed with white blood and, after that, Indian blood. They were located mainly in the Franklin area.
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2 comments:

  1. Donald Alfred CollinsNovember 26, 2014 at 11:15 PM

    Great article. I'm hoping there will be more like it.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 30, 2014 at 2:38 PM

    If the family's name is Shepherd/Chavis, they actually started with Indian blood (we're on Indian Land), then White blood (the source of the Shepherd/Chavis name), then Black blood (more likely than not, brought over by Whites).

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