My kin is from the St. Joe and Allendale, Missouri neck of the woods, btw, so Don’t think we couldn’t be related...
The main tie in for "the Huck", probably yourself, and many of my relatives is a place called Sand Creek KY. Abe Lincoln ties in there too.
It was settled quite some time before things stabilized North of the Ohio. Then folks moved North, and by 1812 or so they moved to Missouri and Arkansas.