Ancestry/Genealogy

but occasionally in the 19th century the term "Melungeon" was applied to those now called "Lumbee" although never as consistently as the Virginia/Tennessee border mixed ancestry communities. Heather has Lumbee relatives in Robeson County and could enroll as a tribal member if she wished, I just read online. Don't know about the Hanks, Presley, and Gardner evidence, but Martin also seems Melungeon-related. He had a g grandfather in Texas who was labeled a "quadroon Indian" which would link him to the group called Redbone, akin to Melungeons by genealogical and DNA evidence.

Had not heard of Rich Mullins, went to his Wikipedia page, born in Indiana but looks very much like a Tennessee/Virginia Melungeon Mullins so I bet his roots are there.