Doc Holliday and Gone with the Wind
Lee Murrah
Old South.
Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind, had two cousins who some
think were models for characters in her novel. The cousins were in love,
but as first cousins they could not marry. The female cousin became a nun
and took the name Sister Melanie. The male cousin went west and became
"Doc" Holliday. Ashley Wilkes was said to have had some of his
characteristics.
Has anyone else heard this story? Is it a fact that Doc was Margaret
Mitchell's cousin?
John Dean
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Margaret Mitchell b.1900 d.1949
What do you think?
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Steve Grimm
PORTRAIT, Doc Holliday's uncle married Mary A Fitzgerald. Mary's uncle was the
the great grandfather of Margaret Mitchell. So they were cousins, but not
first cousins. May be second cousins once removed or somethng similar. (never
sure how to qualify). Karen Holiday Tanner states "most literary historians
consider Melanie to be patterned after Mattie Holiday".
Steve
Steve Grimm
PORTRAIT, Doc Holliday's uncle married Mary A Fitzgerald. Mary's uncle was the
the great grandfather of Margaret Mitchell. So they were cousins, but not
first cousins. May be second cousins once removed or somethng similar. (never
sure how to qualify). Karen Holliday Tanner states "most literary historians
consider Melanie to be patterned after Mattie Holliday".
OKLawDog
Holliday was from an established southern based family of that name.
The story about the first cousins not being able to marry is very shaky. Jessie
James and his first cousin married and had the two children that were living
when James was killed in the 1880s.
On the Trail,
Diron Ahlquist
www.oklahombres.org
NWg...@webtv.net
mentions to Wyatt that he was once in love with his cousin and that she
jointed the convent over the affair....could have been true??
Rhonda
"I'm Your Huckleberry"....
Vicki
NWg...@webtv.net wrote:
No. One of those "urban legends." True West recently had an article
that debunked that, among other rumors about "the good doctor."
Vicki
Vicki
NWg...@webtv.net wrote:
> I remember in the movie Tombstone..near the end when Doc is dying, he
> mentions to Wyatt that he was once in love with his cousin and that she
> jointed the convent over the affair....could have been true??
>
> Rhonda
>
> "I'm Your Huckleberry"....
BTW -- did you know that Jesse James married his cousin?
Vicki
