The shumate Surname
shumate Name Meaning and History
Americanized form of southern French De la Chaumette, a
topographic name for someone who lived on a chaumette, a high,
arid plateau with very little vegetation, derived from a diminutive of
chaume ‘bare land’ (a specialized sense of Latin calmus
‘calm’, ‘unruffled’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| have info from 1650 to present Ark.Mo.Ky.N.C. | de la Chaumette/Shumate/Homesley | 39 |
| John Shumate -- Unidentified photo found in SW Missouri |
 Rocky_kit
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| Shumate family cemetery in Wilkes County, NC |
Donna Messer
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| james shumate |
santrim07
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| walter shumate |
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| Shumate's in West Virginia |
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| Shumate Rhoades in wilkes county nc |
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| Armistaed Shumate? | Darlene Smith | 6 |
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