In researching my children's Dykes ancestors of Hawkins County Tennessee I found to my surprise that many of the names in Hawkins are also names prominent here on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The common names include Dykes, Lankford, Hickman, Willis, Mears and others. I am interested in whether there is any story behind this. One of the Dykes he thinks that the families came here from Tennessee but it seems more logical that the migration was the other way.