Tag: Alicia M. Prater

  • Thomas Collins, Lost Melungeon Roots Alicia M. Prater, Ph.D. 2020-09-03 The Goins’, a Melungeon family in Graysville, Tennessee, in the 1920s. Source Thomas Collins was born about 1785, presumably in Ashe, North Carolina. He was a Melungeon and noted as “Free Colored Person” (FCP) on the 1820 and 1830 U.S. censuses. Thomas married Nancy Williams,…