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Origin and Migration List:

 Below is a list of Okesia Melungeon Kin surnames and counties from which this extended family of Melungeon people descends and migrated from, and a list of pockets and kinnets those families descend from. Each pocket consists of a handful of Melungeon Kinnets (kin networks).  This will be indicated by color.

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SURNAMES​

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  • Blair

  • Bowling/Bollin(g)

  • Boyatt

  • Brown

  • Bunch/Punch

  • Campbell

  • Childers/Childs/Childress

  • Cox

  • Collins

  • Crabtree

  • Duncan​​

  • Dority/Daugherty

  • ​Earles

  • Gibson

  • Gipson

  • Harris

  • Hawkins

  • Johnson

  • Jones

  • Kidd

  • King

  • Lane

  • Milne

  • Mitchem

  • Mullins

  • Mullis​

  • Rolfe

  • Thompson

  • Troxell

  • Vance

ORIGIN COUNTIES

 

TN:​​​

  • Anderson

  • Claiborne

  • Fentress

  • Hancock

  • Hawkins

  • Overton

  • Jackson

  • Putnam

  • Scott

  • Smith

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KY:

  • ​​Cumberland

  • Harlan

  • McCreary

  • Wayne

  • Whitley​

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VA:​

  • ​Lee

  • Scott

  • Smyth

  • Wise

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WV:

  • ​​Logan

  • Mcdowell

  • Mercer

  • Mingo

Pockets and Kinnets

TN:​​

  • Bay

  • Macomb 

  • Monroe

  • Oakland

  • Saginaw

  • Sanilac

  • Washtenaw

  • Wayne

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Kinnit Color Key:​​

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Bear Creek (includes Hazeltucky)

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Okesia Melungeon Kin

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