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My Mother's Maiden Name Was Harkrider From East Texas,Does Anyone Know The Origin Of That Name?

Most people from the lower states assume I have Indian in me but my mother said no. That we have black Irish. I just need some help

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    Harkrider is Americanized form of German and Swiss German Hergenreider or
    Hergenreiter. The name is known as a habitational name from a place named
    Herchenrode or Herchenroth or Hergenrode or
    Hergenroth in Hesse or Herkenrath in the Rhineland.
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