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Re: Doc Holliday and Gone with the Wind he was her cousin by marriage. My cousin Berrien Kinard Upshaw her first husband was Rhett

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On Saturday, July 29, 2000 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-5, Lee Murrah wrote:
> I just heard some fascinating information on and A&E program on love in the
> 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?



On Saturday, July 29, 2000 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-5, Lee Murrah wrote:
> I just heard some fascinating information on and A&E program on love in the
> 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?

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