Talk:Samuel I. Cabell

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I had thought of fixing this article to celebrate both Valentines Day and Black History month, but Covid-19 complications still continue, with intermittent ancestry.com access and the periodicals section of the Library of Congress sitll closed. I managed to get to the Library of Virginia midweek between storms and checked out its latest edition of The Cabells and their Kin (1994), though I suspect another may have been published in the last five years. While the current revisor also published a book about 20th century Cabells and another in 2003 about the family in the American Civil War, I don't know when I'll be able to get to the Virginia Historical Society to review them, due to other obligations. The problem is that Alexander Brown first published his well-known family genealogy book in 1895, and he most definitely cheered for Confederate ancestors and likely believed in the Lost Cause.

This Samuel Cabell might have been "forgotten" because of his interracial marriage, though providing for his descendants appears a common goal of his wills per the articles cited. For what it's worth, I have not managed to read them. Following the Virginia Supreme Court's upholding of the conditional Koch family gift, I can no longer access the George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law Library, where I years ago read sections of a book about slavery's tightening grip in 1840s and 1850s Virginia, particularly with respect to testamentary manumissions as he desired, possibly because of opinions by his seeming distant relative William H. Cabell. Thus I cited the UNLV masters thesis readily available online.

I have written here extensively about the wealthy salt investor Dr. John J. Cabell because I don't know if he qualifies for a wikipedia article, through John Cabell Jr. did represent Buckingham County in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1787. If Dr. John had no suitable male heirs, he may have sought/invited relatives to mentor, hence his nephew Napoleon Bonaparte Cabell's venture into the salt industry and probably this man's. This Samuel Cabell may also have been born outside a church or government-recognized marriage, either to Dr. John or another prominent Cabell.Jweaver28 (talk) 17:06, 13 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]