My folks are from Missouri. Uncle Frank started out as a peddler, and then after World War II, he opened a store.
Mine grew tobacco, had a large farm. Came down here from Virginia in the 1750’s, after spending about a century there in the Northern Neck. Prior to that, they were in Maryland, then back to southwest England. Most of the tobacco planter “aristocracy” has a similar history, but mine must’ve been a less prosperous branch, lol. A lot of land, not much money, too bad about that. The Scotch-Irish came in with some of the later wives. They married German wives earlier, then English from Virginia on back.