Deputy, Indiana
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Deputy, Indiana
My dad has an old book on Indiana State history that was handed down from his parents. The book states that a Deputy ancestor paddled a canoe down the Ohio River with an Indian guide, settling in southeastern Indiana. There is still a town there named for him -- and a cemetary filled with Deputys. My grandmother had something from an ancestry-tracing company that stated our family name comes from the French Houginaghts (I'm sure I've misspelled that!), who were some of the first European Protestants. The family fled persecution for their religious beliefs, some going to Holland, and our part of the family going to Wales. From there, they came to this continent. In the 1980 census, there were only 1,000 households by our surname in the continental US.