Surname Dominance
The 33 surnames liste below represent 819 graduates of Lincoln or about 41.0% of all graduates (2,002). Of course, this does not mean that all the graduates of the same surname are from the same families. It is believed that many are, however. Not only that, but probably most Lincoln School graduates can claim kin to three or more of these 33 surnames. I claimn kingship to at least four families of the names below. In a brief conversation with the husband (a non-Lincolnite) of a graduate living in Waukegan, Illnois, he said, "When you come right down to it, looks to me like everybody in Marion is related." It was found, in a non-scientific survey, that these same families dominated the census tracts of black families in Perry County n early 130 years ag0 (1870). Many with the same surname remain today in the ares as they did then: Oak Grove, Hopewell, Green Leaf, "Up in the Hills" "the Prairie", "Across the River," etc. Looked at in another way, more than 1 of 3 students to gradute from Lincoln School had one of the surnames that appear below: Surname #Grads Surname #Grads Jones 53   Evans 23 Moore 51   Green 23 Jackson 48 Woods 23 Sanders 42   Pattons 21 Tubbs 37   Ford 18 Smith 34 Hogue 19 Melton 32   Walker 19 King 29   Davis 18 Billingsley 29   Dobynes 18 Childs 29   Scott 18 Johnson 28   Griffin 17 Rutledge 28 Kynard 16 Edwards 26 Sullivan 16 Lee 27 Fowlkes 15 Curry 24 Williams 15 Perry 23
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