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Common Surname and County List:

Hazeltucky (Bear Creek) Melungeons are a Kin or Band of a larger Diaspora of Melungeon people known as The Great Lakes Nation or Lakeminite Pocket. Below is a list of common Lakeminite Melungeon surnames and counties from which this specific pocket of Melungeon people descends and migrated from, and a list of counties those families migrated to.  Each pocket consists of a handful of Melungeon Kinnits.  Kinnits are indicated by color.

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SURNAMES​

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  • Adams

  • Barnett

  • Bowling/Bollin(g)

  • Bennett

  • Blair

  • Breedlove 

  • Brown

  • Bowman

  • Boyatt/Boyd

  • Browning

  • Bunch/Punch

  • Camp

  • Campbell

  • Carnes

  • Chaffin

  • Childers/Childs/Childress

  • Chavis

  • Cornett

  • Courtney

  • Cox

  • Collins

  • Crabtree

  • Davis

  • Deathredge

  • Duncan

  • Davis

  • Denham​​

  • Dority/Daugherty

  • Estes

  • Freeman 

  • Fugate

  • Gambill

  • Gibson/Gipson

  • Goodman

  • Gowen/Goin

  • Grider

  • Hannah

  • Harris

  • Hawkins

  • Henson

  • Hensley

  • Honeycutt

  • Johnson

  • Jones

  • King

  • Lane

  • Lawson

  • Mitchem

  • Mullins

  • Moore

  • Moss

  • Nolan

  • Osborne

  • Owens/Owings

  • Oxendine

  • Nichols

  • Perkins

  • Porter

  • Rhea

  • Russell

  • Shelton

  • Sindarsnood

  • Sizemore

  • Sloan

  • Slusher​

  • Thompson

  • Troxell

  • Turner

  • Vance

  • Vanover

  • Young

ORIGIN COUNTIES

 

TN:​​​

  • Anderson

  • Claiborne

  • Fentress

  • Hancock

  • Hawkins

  • Overton

  • Jackson

  • Putnam

  • Scott

  • Smith

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KY:

  • ​​Cumberland

  • Harlan

  • Lawrence

  • McCreary

  • Pike

  • Russell

  • Wayne

  • Whitley

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NC:

  • Alleghany

  • Ashe

  • Avery

  • Mitchell

  • Watauga

  • Wilkes

  • Yancey

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VA:​

  • ​Lee

  • Russel

  • Scott

  • Smyth

  • Tazewell

  • Wise

  • Wythe

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WV:

  • ​​Logan

  • Mcdowell

  • Mercer

  • Mingo

  • Monroe

  • Raleigh

  • Wayne

  • Wyoming

MIGRATION COUNTIES

 

MI:​​

  • Bay

  • Macomb 

  • Monroe

  • Oakland

  • Saginaw

  • Sanilac

  • Washtenaw

  • Wayne

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Other Lakeminite Kinnits include:

OH:

  • Cuyahuga

  • Eerie

  • Fulton

  • Lucas

  • Ottowa

  • Summitt

  • Williams

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IN:

(This diaspora is now separate from the Lakeminite Diaspora and are known as the Michiana and includes 2 MI counties.)

  • Elkhart

  • LaPorte

  • Marshall

  • Starke

  • St. Joseph

  • Berrian (Michigan)

  • Cass (Michigan)

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Kinnit Color Key:​​

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Hazeltucky

Horseshoe

Black River

Crow Island

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