Migration Patterns

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Leading States of Origin of the Old Stock Anglo-American Population
From Atlas of Texas. Published by The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Business Research, 1976.
Interstate migration, 1880, ratio of natives to total population by states
Interstate migration, 1890, Texas to West Virginia

Surname	Family	Routes	Contact	Arrived
Allard	A.H. and Mary and son George W.	Missouri to Hopkins County, TX	A History of Texas and Texans, Vol 3	1842
Blackwell	Joel P. and Lydia Byars, and children	Sartanburg, SC to Greene County, IL to Hopkins County, TX	A History of Texas and Texans, Vol. 3	1850's
Callan	George W. and Nancy(Dickson)	Cherokee County to Harrison and then Hopkins County, TX	A History of Texas and Texans, Vol. 3	1875
Mattinson	James, Annie Pillair, and John Edmund	Liverpool, ENG to Bloomington, IL to New Orleans, LA to Tarrant, Hopkins County, TX	A History of Texas and Texans, Vol. 3	1873
McGee	James Maxey and Flora Wilson McGee	Mississippi to Hopkins County, TX	A History of Texas and Texans, Vol. 3	1845
Posey	brothers James Henry and Frederick Seyburt	Charles County, MD to Shelby County, AL to Hopkins County, TX	Teresa Stewart Sitz	1866-1870
Stewart	Daniel and Araminta and their children	Richmond County, NC to Morgan and Fayette Counties, GA to Talladega and Shelby Counties, AL to Hopkins County, TX	Teresa Stewart Sitz	1866-1870
Thompson	Simon	Tippah County, MS to Hopkins County, TX	A History of Texas and Texans, Vol. 4	1853
Thweatt	Luther Benjamin	Harpersville, Shelby County, AL to Louisiana to Hopkins County, TX	Teresa Stewart Sitz	Fall 1868
Wadsworth	Hogan	Lincoln County, GA to Shelby County, AL to Hopkins County, TX	Teresa Stewart Sitz	1866-1870

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