Hello. You are headed down a long, twisty road that is a dead-end at this time. Thomas B Thacker, b 1809 should be my 3 gr-grandfather. He's not due to events a hundred years later, but I spent plenty of time researching these Thacker. Thomas and David were not father and son. Civil War pension hearing deposition records have both family and friends stating David and Thomas were half-brothers. David is listed in the will of Mary (Branham) Dalton as part of 'my children' along with a Robert Thacker, as well as several Dalton. Based on the timing of Mary's will being proven, as well as Thomas being born in 1809, PLUS YDNA testing showing several of these lines male/YDNA being that of 'Gibson', the assumption would be that David, Robert and Thomas shared the same father, or at least males of the same family. Google 'The Thacker Chronicles' and you will find a wealth of information from a modern day descendant of these Thacker. It's fun research, but it is simply dead-ending with David. With their being part of the Melungeon, who's to say who was their father, if it was even fully understood/known.
Hello. You are headed down a long, twisty road that is a dead-end at this time. Thomas B Thacker, b 1809 should be my 3 gr-grandfather. He's not due to events a hundred years later, but I spent plenty of time researching these Thacker.
Thomas and David were not father and son. Civil War pension hearing deposition records have both family and friends stating David and Thomas were half-brothers. David is listed in the will of Mary (Branham) Dalton as part of 'my children' along with a Robert Thacker, as well as several Dalton. Based on the timing of Mary's will being proven, as well as Thomas being born in 1809, PLUS YDNA testing showing several of these lines male/YDNA being that of 'Gibson', the assumption would be that David, Robert and Thomas shared the same father, or at least males of the same family. Google 'The Thacker Chronicles' and you will find a wealth of information from a modern day descendant of these Thacker. It's fun research, but it is simply dead-ending with David. With their being part of the Melungeon, who's to say who was their father, if it was even fully understood/known.