Talk:Charles B. Dew

Genealogy work needed
Footnote 1 of chapter 1 in Making of a Racist gives his sources for his ancestry connection with the College of William & Mary president Thomas Roderick Dew as the Dew family bible and three relatively modern Florida obituaries, which I could not readily check. However, a search for his paternal grandfather among the census records available in many libraries through ancestry.com shows 5 year old Givens Dew in the 1870 census in the family of 61-year old farmer D.S. Dew in Gibson County, Tennessee. A further search back to the 1860 census slave schedules shows D.S. Dew as owning 8 slaves in District 7 in Weakley County, which is in northwest Tennessee (as is Gibson County). Thus D. S. Dew might be (but probably is not) a younger brother or nephew of Thomas Roderick Dew. That man born in King and Queen County, Virginia in 1802 might've also suffered from tuberculosis (like this man's grandfather), but died on his honeymoon with no known children, according to the published sources I cited in that article. I write here because though I want to follow up on this, I had difficulty during the first cleanup edit (at a library where wikipedia edits requires account signin) with a chatty patron from Detroit, then within less than an hour five spam mails hit my junkmail folder and the viral gadget guide scammer leaked through to my inbox (although no previous hour all week reached 4 junkmails I believe as I geared back). Thus, my cyberbullies have re-activated beyond no-message calls from mostly Virginia and some Pennsylvania and other numbers and a real estate solicitation text with a Virginia exchange but supposed Puerto Rican location.Jweaver28 (talk) 22:53, 22 July 2023 (UTC)