Direct Surname Listing
This is a list of some of the surnames that I've been researching, and the areas that I've been focusing on. The counties listed are located in Texas (unless otherwise noted). Click on the highlighted names to see related or connected surnames, or go directly to the full related surnames list. If you're searching for African-American surnames in other areas of the country, you might want to consider taking a look at the Afrigeneas Surname Database.
- ARMSTRONG
- Rusk County
- BLACKWELL
- Navarro County; family came to Texas from Mississippi
- BROWN
- Cherokee, Childress, Ellis, Gray, and Smith counties; origins of family may be in Virginia
- CALHOUN
- Ellis, Navarro, and Tarrant counties; possibility of Grimes County
- CUNNINGHAM *NEW*
- Rusk county
- EUBANKS
- Cherokee and Rusk counties
- EVANS
- Dallas, Ellis, and Navarro counties; origins of family may be in Alabama
- HAWTHORNE/HOWTHORNE
- Navarro County
- HODGE
- Gray, Nacogdoches, and Rusk counties; Tillman County, Oklahoma; origins of family may be in Georgia
- HUGHES
- Navarro, Travis, and Williamson counties
- ISAAC(S)
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- Rusk County
- ISOME
- Travis County
- KELLY/KELLEY
- Childress, Ellis, and Navarro counties
- LEDBETTER
- came to Texas from Mississippi
- McCARTHY/McCARTER/McARTHUR
- Navarro, Travis, and Williamson counties
- McCRIMMON
- Cherokee and Rusk counties; Tillman County, Oklahoma
- MITCHELL
- Smith County; possibility of Pike County, Georgia
- MOSS
- Navarro County; family came to Texas from Georgia (mid 1800's)
- RICHARD(S)
- Virginia (before 1860's); changed to BROWN around that time
- SIMON
- Georgia (early 1800's)
- STEVENSON
- Travis and Williamson counties
- TRICE
- Navarro County
- WALTON
- Rusk County; origins of family may be in Alabama
- YOUNG
- Childress, Ellis, and Navarro counties
