Jim Callahan, author of "Lest We Forget, The Melungeon Colony of Newman's Ridge." Jim is a great-great-grandson of Mahala Mullins through his maternal lineage. His mother, Ollie, a direct descendant of the original Mullins, Collins, Goings core group of Newman's Ridge, was influenced by the missionaries of Vardy to relocate to new beginning in Indiana. Callahan graduated from Purdue University.
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My father in law is descendant of Collins, Goins, Mullins and Gibson of the area. We have had his DNA taken in Ancestry. Interesting that he does have Iberian Peninsula as a region.
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