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Edward Y. Williams
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John Webb
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Henry Lile
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William Newell
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Charles Price
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William Bogart
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Thomas Goodall
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2
2
I
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5
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3
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John Patchett
3
2
4
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Ashbel Van Sihock
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John Tolman
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5
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Ishem Keeth
3
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James Sturdyvan
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2
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Robert Moffit
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John Risk
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John Welch
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John Moffit
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Isaac Reed
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HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY
Names of Heads of Families and Ages
Males Females Under 21-Over 21 Under 21- Over 21
Total (2)
C. P. Sanford, female (one black)
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I
I
3
Jiles O. Sullivan
2
3
I
7
Ralph Parsons
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2
2
I
6
S. P. Ross
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I
2
I
5
James Smart
3
I
I
I
6
Andrew Carter
2
2
3
I
8
Charles Huddleston
. .
I
I
I
3
William Matthews
4
I
3
I
9
James Lamb
. .
I
2
I
4
Samuel Claton
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I
. .
I
Peter S. Wood
I
3
2
2
8
John Goodwin
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I
. .
2
Elijah Purdam
2
7
6
4
David Ely
2
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I
I
5
William Brooks
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Males Females Under 21-Over 21 Under 21-Over 21
Total
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Peter Gillis
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I
2
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4
Fraces Anson
3
3
Henry Anson
4
5
2
2
13
Isaac W. McCarty
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I
. .
I
3
Edwar 1 Powell
2
2
2
I
7
Thoma Blankenship
7
2
I
I
8
Hiram Brown
2
I
I
I
5
Woodson Blankinship
I
I
3
I
6
John Neal
I
2
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I
4
Urial Neal
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. .
2
James Sanders
2
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I
I
5
Obadiah Cook
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I
I
I
3
Irvin Wilson
6
I
3
2
12
Joseph Maxwell
I
2
3
6
P. K. Rice
2
2
2
I
7
George Jackson
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I
2
I
5
Wm. M. Jacks.
4
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I
6
Joseph Rhodes
2
2
I
1
6
John Moss
2
2
I
2
7
John Newport
3
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I
I
6
Frances Martin
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W'm. F. Nelson
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3
Samuel T. Maxwell.
2
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3
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7
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2
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3
James J. Jordan
3
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Jesse Carl
3
(3)
HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY
Names of Heads of Families and Ages George Whitall John Richards
Males Females Under 21-Over 21 Under 21-Over 21
Total (3)
2
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1
4
2
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5
179
151
152
91
573
Citizens' Names
Males
Females
Total
Under 21-Over 21 Under 21-Over 21
(I)
Archibald Walters
2
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2
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6
Jacob Fiess
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2
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1
Solomon Dover
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2
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5
Abraham Dover
4
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1
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Richard Childers
3
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2
I
7
John J. Wilson
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1
Wilson B. Clarke
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1
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I
Jacob Burge
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3
I
6
Westley Prior
4
1
4
2
I 1
John Sutton
5
2
1
I
9
James Sutton
I
1
3
1
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I
1
I
3
John Wilson
2
I
I
I
5
Stephen Boles
2
1
2
I
6
Richard Eubanks
1 I
I
1
3
John Roberts
2
I
3
I
7
John Terrell
1
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1
Thomas Clarke
4
I
2
II
Isaac Boen
I
1
4
2
8
Christopher Heath
3
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2
I
7
George Moffitt, Sr.
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I
2
I
5
George Moffitt, Jr
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1
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1
3
Samuel Peters
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I
I
I
4
Ezekiel Cooper
2
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4
Benjamin F. Hutton
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1
3
Samuel Hutton
5
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3
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Claibourne Jones
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2
2
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6
William Lusk
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3
Benjamin Horton
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1
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1
3
Johnson Hampton
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I
3
1
6
Matthias Mintor
3
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1
Hiram Young
2
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I
4
Caleb Spencer
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1
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I
Robinson Morris
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I
4
Joshua Hale
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53
40
56
33
182
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I
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2
Leven Caulk
2
John Shepherd
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Benjamin Sutton
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68
HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY
Names
Males Females Under 21-Over 21 Under 21-Over 21
Total (2)
James J. Caldwell
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2
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5
John Caldwell
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2
John A. Black
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4
Isaac Anderson
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John Morgan
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2
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5
John Mailey
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7
Thomas Caldwell
5
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5
3
14
Granville Gholson
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3
Levi Smith
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2
Nathaniel Scott
2
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3
Orval Portor
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Marshal Saunders
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4
Joseph Moon
2
2
3
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8
Robert Caulk
3
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4
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9
Henry Caulk
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3
Jesse Burge
2
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5
Peter Hale
2
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5
William Hale
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2
Daniel Morris
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3
Jolın· Hale
3
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2
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7
Isaac Morris
2
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2
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6
Ezekiel Hale
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Absolem Cornelius
6
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6
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14
Israel Chaniness
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2
William Manly
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3
John Duke
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3
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6
William Dodds
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3
J. D. Payne
2
5
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I
9
Robert Patton
3
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I
6
Matthew Latta
2
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I
4
Mason Wigginton
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3
I
6
Jacob Rexrout
2
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5
Abraham Sells
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I
I
4
William Parker
3
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3
I
8
John Bailey
3
I
2
I
7
58
42
52
34
186
Males
Females
Total (3)
Under 21-Over 21 Under 21-Over 21
Names
William O'Neill
3
3
2
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9
James McDole
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2
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5
George Cole
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3
William Nash
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William Williams
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3
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5
Henry Freedly
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69
HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY
Names
Males Females Under 21-Over 21 Under 21-Over 21
Total (3)
Harrison Brooks
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4
Christopher Ladd
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4
William Carnes
2
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4
Joseph Johnson
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Joseph Pickum
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3
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3
Simeon Drulard
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1
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4
Phillip Huffman
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2
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2
6
Nehemiah Jackson
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3
6
William Southard
2
1
3
I
7
Joseph Ralston
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1
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4
Henry Arnett
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4
William Latta
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3
Joshua Clarke
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3
Isham Edwards
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2
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5
Taulbird H. Edwards.
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3
Benjamin Clarke
2
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4
Reuben Westfall
3
2
3
9
Ezekiel Blanchard
6
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2
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10
Nathan Rah
2
I
I
2
6
Joseph Carter
2
2
4
I
9
Job Carter
4
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3
I
9
John Anderson ..
5
2
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9
Thomas Blair
2
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5
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9
David G. Blair
3
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2
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7
Noah Parish
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4
Allen Elliot
1
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2
William Dupont
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2
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I
3
Nathanial Prime
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1
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I
3
Matthew Pace
2
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4
I
8
Reuben C. Mason
3
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5
Phillip Mascle
5
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2
8
William H. Lee
2
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3
I
7
Robert W. Lee
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2
I
5
Henry Sidenbinder
4
2
3
10
Jacob Crane
4
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3
I
9
Jesse Parish
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3
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6
70
50
60
39
219
Males
Females
Total (4)
Phillip B. Harrison
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2
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I
3
. .
2
6
Richard Slauter
I
4
2
2
9
John Spence
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2
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I
3
Jacob Rinearson
2
4
I
1
8
Names
Under 21-Over 21 Under 21-Over 21
2
Joseph Derben
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I
70
HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY
Females
Total (4)
Isaac H. Rinearson
I
2
I
I
5
William Luster
6
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I
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8
William Walters
2
2
5
2
II
Robert Cusley
6
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2
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IO
Oliver Pollock
3
I
I
I
6
Jesse Thomas
5
2
3
I
II
John Williford
I
I
3
I
6
James Williford
2
2
2
2
S
Baily Williford
I
2
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I
4
Thomas Tucker
2
I
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I
4
John Laughlin
2
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2
I
6
Claibourne Wright
I
I
2
I
5
John H. Randolph
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John M. Menefee
I
2
3
2
8
W. L. Jenkins
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I
I
I
3
Presley Saunders
I
3
2
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6
Keeling T. Maulding
3
I
+
I
5
William M. Morrow
2
I
I
I
5
Jesse Hancock
2
I
. .
3
Samuel Nelson
2
2
I
I
6
M. G. Wood
I
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I
2
Louis Morgan
2
2
Moses Shirley
2
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3
Lampton Tucker
I
2
6
I
IO
Vordre Matthews
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I
Martin Tucker
2
2
I
2
7
Randolph Casey
I
I
I
3
John Phillips
I
I
3
I
6
Mary Johnson
1
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3
I
8
Tible Hughes
3
I
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I
2
George Walters, Jr.
I
2
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4
Thomas Stout
2
I
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I
4
59
62
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36
208
Males
Females
Total (5)
Elisha Walter
2
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I
4
George Sizemore
3
I
I
I
6
James McCoy
3
I
I
I
6
Isaac Jordan
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I
3
I
5
Abraham Updegraff
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2
2
I
5
William Updegraff
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I
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2
Daniel Edmunds
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I
D. C. Ruberts
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.
2
I
7
George Walters Sr.
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Names
Under 21-Over 21 Under 21-Over 21
Males Under 21-Over 21 Under 21-Over 21
Names
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HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY
71
Males Females Under 21-Over 21 Under 21-Over 21
Total (5)
Washington Updegraff
1
I
1
3
Berryman Jones
2
2
2
I
7
Richard Shockley
J
I
I
2
5
John D. Wood
I
2
1
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4
William Dotson
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I
Elijah Hilton
I
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I
John Bullock
2
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. .
2
llopkin Williams
2
I
3
I
7
John Ristine
I
3
I
5
Adam Ritchie
3
I
7
2
13
Zacharia Wilbourne
1
2
2
I
6
William Morris
I
I
I
3
John Fariss
2
I
I
4
Robert Wilson
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I
4
Moses Shirley
1
2
. .
1
4
Wilson Soule
I
1
2
1
5
Tatam Hancock
I
I
I
3
David Smith
1
I
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3
Stephen Rose
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1
1
I
3
Samuel Heaton
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I
3
I
5
Riley Garrern
I
1
3
I
6
Hezekiah Lee
2
I
2
I
6
Frederick Lee
3
I
1
I
7
Jacob Pricket
2
I
3
I
2
Elias Lee
I
. .
I
3
James MeCracken
I
1
. .
I
8
Phillip Ballard
1
5
2
14
William Miller
5
2
6
1
. .
Abraham Miller
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I
2
39
46
55
33
173
Males Females Under 21-Over 21 Under 21-Over 21
Total (6)
John McKee
2
1
I
I
5
John Hartman
2
I
2
I
6
Benjamin Carr
3
I
3
I
8
Moses Priest
3
I
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2
6
Robert Wasson
5
2
I
2
IO
Joseph Wasson
I
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I
2
William Shover
1
I
2
Į
8
Abraham Smith
I
3
3
I
S
Abner Hacklemon
2
2
1
I
9
Obediah Archer
2
I
I
1
5
Rhomas Ratliff
2
I
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I
4
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I
Joseph Smart
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3
Names
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1
Names
72
HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY
Females
Names
John Henderson
4
I
.
I
6
Daniel Duvall
.
2
I
I
4
Washington Lightfoot
I
I
I
I
4
Francis Lightfoot
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2
I
I
4
Amos Dunham
I
I
. .
I
3
Elijah Dunham
. .
I
I
I
3
Lyman Chace
2
4
I
. .
7
Richard B. Davis
I
I
I
I
4
Chauncy Beeman
2
2
2
I
7
William Parker
3
I
3
I
8
John Bailey
3
I
2
I
7
Stephen Cole
I
I
I
I
4
Edward Pickum
I
3
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. .
4
Elijah Townsend
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. .
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I
James McGuffa
. .
2
3
I
6
Thomas Gilleland
I
I
7
I
IO
Angelo Driskall
. .
I
I
2
David Laswell
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I
James Hatcher
2
2
I
2
7
Rolla Driskall
4
I
3
3
II
Gideon B. Alexander
.
2
2
2
6
Robert Williams
3
3
3
I
IO
Wright Williams
. .
I
I
I
3
Thomas Stoddard
.
. .
I
3
Joshua Swank
4
I
3
I
9
Westley Swank
. .
I
2
. .
3
William Milligan
5
I
I
I
8
64
56
57
39
216
Males Females Under 21-Over 21 Under 21-Over 21
Total (7)
David Russell
I
2
I
I
4
William Creighton
2
. .
I
4
Rufus P. Burlingame
5
. .
. .
5
Hannah Smith
3
. .
2
I
6
Jeremiah Smith, Sr.
7
2
2
I
I2
Samuel Smith
I
3
I
2
7
David L. Davis
2
I
I
4
James C. Reed
I
I
2
Rodney Arnold
2
I
2
I
6
Jesse Johnson
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I
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14
19
IO
9
52
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I
2
I
I
2
Names
Males Total Under 21-Over 21 Under 21-Over 21-(6)
HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY
Whole Number 1236 Females
Names
Males Under 21-Over 21 Under 21-Over 21
Total (1)
Harvey McFarlin
I
2
. .
I
4
David Smith
1
I
. .
I
3
Hussetow Compton
3
2
I
I
7
Anthony Potts
3
4
Alexander Evans
2
I
I
I
5
John Logan
. .
I
I
Jonathan Morgan
2
2
4
I
9
Hezekiah Archer
7
I
2
I
II
William Smith
2
I
I
I
5
John R. Cochran
3
2
2
I
8
Vincent Smith
. .
. .
3
I
I
5
Jonathan Casterline
4
3
3
I
II
Israel Robinson
2
2
2
I
7
John Wright
I
2
I
2
6
Daniel Chance
3
I
3
I
8
Peter D. Smith
I
4
I
I
7
Paris Smith
I
2
3
1
7
James Anderson
I
I
. .
2
4
Noah Parrish
I
I
2
I
5
John Bridges
3
9
4
I
17
Robert King
3
I
2
I
7
Samuel Hencely
I
I
. .
I
3
William M. Blankenship
2
I
2
I
6
Ebenezer Riddle
I
I
. .
I
3
John Darbyshire
4
2
5
I
12
Michael C. Harris
I
I
I
Į
4
Peter Smith
6
I
I
2
IO
Alexander Hilleary
. .
2
2
. .
4
David Bolick
3
2
4
I
IO
Jesse Hunt
. .
I
3
I
5
John Hunt
2
I
3
I
7
Anderson C. Wilson
. .
1
2
. .
3
William Morgan
2
3
2
I
8
Butler B. Delashmntt.
3
2
I
1
7
John Scott
. .
I
4
I
6
John J. Huber.
. .
I
5
. .
6
Robert H. Ivers
2
2
2
I
7
68
68
71
39
246
Males
Females
Total
Names
Under 21-Over 21 Under 21-Over 21
(2)
Elias N. Delashmutt
3
I
2
I
7
John Hammer
2
I
3
I
7
.
2
I
I
4
William Shuck
. .
I
73
74
HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY
Names
Males Females Under 21-Over 21 Under 21-Over 21
Total (2)
Orien Carter
. .
I
I
I
3
Benjamin Simmons
3
2
. .
I
6
Stephen Gearhart
1
3
2
I
7
Elijah Shockley
3
I
I
I
8
James Camron
3
I
3
I
8
William Sunderland
I
I
I
. .
3
John Simpson
2
2
2
2
8
Andrew Hagy
3
I
3
I
8
Mathias Grimes
2
I
5
I
9
John Hodgen
2
4
2
3
1I
Lewis Elliott
. .
1
I
I
3
William Lamme
2
2
. .
I
5
William Buckhanan
2
4
2
2
IO
Laben Hollen
I 1
I
. .
I
3
James Crutchfield
4
I
2
I
8
John R. Moore
2
3
I
2
8
Joseph York
4
1
I
I
7
Young L. Hughes
2
I
2
I
6
John Turner
2
2
I
I
6
Claiborn Hughes
1 I
I
2
I
5
Jeremiah Cutbirth
1 I
2
2
I
6
Richard W. Gunn
2
I
4
I
8
Cornelius Conner
I
2
5
I
9
Jackson Dolahite
I
I
2
I
5
Levi Moffit
3
6
4
I
14
Frederick Kesler
I
I
I
3
Nicholas R. Teas
Į
4
. .
I
6
George W. Teas
. .
I
3
I
5
Charles Teas
3
2
2
I
8
Lefevre Moreland
2
I
I
4
John Whitaker
4
3
3
I
II
George Hepner
I
I
. .
2
John Haines
4
I
5
I
II
Charles H. Snelson
3
2
2
I
8
Alexander Robertson
2
1
3
I
8
John Herrell
3
I
3
I
8
78
67
78
40
263
Males
Females
Total
Under 21-Over 21 Under 21-Over 21
(3)
William Carpenter
3
1
2
1
7
James Gipson
3
I
4
I
9
Johnson King
4
I
3
I
9
Reuben Chance
3
2
I
I
7
Isaac Copple
. .
I
2
I
4
. .
. .
Names
HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY
75
Males Under 21-Over 21 Under 21-Over 21
Total
Names
Daniel G. Cartwright
7
3
2
3
15
Wilson Pitner
I
. .
. .
1
Henry Lee
I
3
2
3
9
Joseph Edwards
3
I
4
1
9
lesse Ashlock
2
I
. .
. .
3
Lewis A. Garrison
2
I
. .
1
4
Tobias Moore
3
I
3
1
8
William Moore
. .
I
I
I
3
John W. Teas
5
I
3
I
IO
Elihu Chandler
2
I
2
I
6
Hepsey Mathis
I
. .
I
1
3
Azariah Gregg
I
2
I
. .
4
Christian Eslinger
2
Ī
3
I
8
William D. Eakins
2
I
7
I
II
John Grimley
2
I
3
I
9
Evan T. Lamb
I
I
2
I
5
William Mathis
5
I
. .
I
7
Jose Mathis
. .
2
2
I
5
John C. Chandler
2
I
4
I
8
Millington McHone
I
I
I
I
4
Charles Lee
2
I
7
I
II
Asa Ellison
I
I
I
I
4
David Duke
I
I
2
I
5
William Curry
I
3
I
6
Richard Robinson
2
2
. .
4
Samuel Brown
2
I
I
I
5
Charles Duke
2
I
I
I
5
John L. Hennis
I
I
I
I
4
Adam Smith
6
I
4
I
12
Michael Miahs
3
I
4
I
9
Zenus Grimes
3
I
. .
I
5
78
44
78
38
238
Males
Females
Total (4)
George Satinfield
. .
I
I
2
Shelby Hendricks
I
I
I
3
James D. Spearman
4
I
2
2
9
Asa Lane
3
2
3
I
9
Isaac Canterberry
I
2
2
I
6
Leonard Abney
.
I
4
I
6
John A. Lewin
7
I
3
I
12
Enoch Sexon
1
I
. .
I
3
. .
I
2
. .
I
2
Elizabeth Hanby
I
. .
. .
Names
Under 21-Over 21 Under 21-Over 21
Females
(3)
Enoch Cyrus
.
HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY
Names
Males Females Under 21-Over 21 Under 21- Over 21
Total (4)
Jacob Sexon
I
I
. .
2
4
Ludlow Maxwell
2
I
. .
I
4
Jacob Wolf
2
I
3
I
7
David Feace
. .
I
4
I
6
Anderson Ogle
..
3
I
I
5
Arthur Inghram
I
4
3
I
9
William W. Chapman
2
I
2
. .
5
Jacob Feace
3
3
I
I
8
Henry Emerson
I
I
3
I
6
Benjamin Golston
2
I
6
I
IO
Daniel Strang
3
I
I
{
6
Andrew Fouts
I
6
3
I
II
David Pierson
I
I
. .
I
3
Jesse Frasher
I
4
I
I
7
George Leebrick
3
4
4
2
13
George W. Hight
5
I
4
I
II
Isaac Crenshaw
2
2
I
6
Jeremiah Smith
3
3
2
2
IO
Samuel C. Agnew
I
1
. .
I
3
Royal Cottle
3
I
4
2
IO
Isaac Leffler
3
2
5
I
I1
John Pierson
6
2
4
I
13
John Jackson
2
I
.
1
4
Levi Scott
3
3
5
I
12
Cary Keller
. .
I
I
1
3
Lewis Walters
2
I
3
1
7
Francis A. Roe
I
1
I
. .
3
73
65
79
40
257
Males
Females
Total
Names
Under 21- Over 21 Under 21-Over 21
(5)
Isaac Parsons
4
I
6
I
12
John H. Benson
2
2
I
5
William L. Toole
. .
I
. .
. .
I
Orien Briggs
2
2
2
I
7
Christopher Shuck
4
2
2
I
9
Elias Keever
. .
2
I
I
4
William Dunbar
. .
I
I .
I
3
James A. Campbell
I
6
6
I
14
James Magers
. .
I
3
I
5
John McClung
3
I
3
I
8
John Ranken
I
2
. .
I
4
. .
I
6
I
2
Michael Tromley
.
I
I
2
Absolam Leffler
4
I
I
1
7
William E. Brown
. .
76
HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY
77
Males Females Under 21- Over 21 Under 21-Over 21
Total (5)
James Erwin
2
I
I
2
6
John Reynolds
I
2
3
I
7
Thomas Kellow
I
I
. .
2
Robert Childers
3
2
I
2
9
George Umphrey
5
4
5
I
15
Abraham McClary
. .
2
2
I
5
Levi Thornton
4
I
I
2
8
Err Thornton
. .
4
. .
I
5
Silas Richardson
. .
I
I
I
3
Nathaniel Parson
4
3
3
I
II
Samuel Shortridge
3
1
I
I
6
Thomas Starks
I
I
2
I
5
William McClaren
4
2
2
I
9
Joseph Crane
I
2
2
I
6
Samuel L. Crane
. .
I
T
I
3
Isaac Lathrop
I
I
Į
I
4
John Cobb
I
I
2
I
5
Silas Lathrop
2
I
3
I
7
James W. Casey
6
. .
I
7
John Vannetty
2
2
I
5
Thomas Burdett
3
. .
. .
3
Adison Reynolds
I
I
2
I
4
Eli Reynolds
I
I
. .
I
3
James Davis
2
. .
I
3
John W. Furgason
2
2
. .
I
5
52
71
62
38
223
Males
Females
Total (6)
Asa Hughes
4
2
3
I
IO
Robert Balmford
2
3
I
I
7
Jacob Kiser
I
I
I
I
4
George Storms
3
I
2
I
7
Williamson Daniel
4
4
7
I
John Hesser
I
I
6
I
9
Peter Hesser
I
I
2
I
5
Benjamin Nye
5
2
I
8
Henry Merry
2
I
. .
I
4
Benjamin Budd
I
. .
.
I
Smith Mounts
5
2
4
I
12
Luce Severe
3
. .
. .
3
William McCaffrey
3
2
I
8
John D. Richey
I
2
. .
I
4
. .
I
. .
I
2
Thomas M. Crane
I
2
I
4
William Starks
.
.
. .
Names
Under 21- Over 21 Under 21-Over 21
. .
.
. .
Names ı
.
78
HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY
Females
Total (6)
Miram Mudgett
2
I
I
4
Olover Blood
I
. .
E
2
Andrew Cable
5
2
2
3
12
Joseph Mounts
. .
4
2
I
7
John S. Robinson
. .
I
. .
I
2
Archileus D. Parker
I
I
. .
I
3
Benjamin W. Clark
4
2
6
I
13
M. S. Devemport
. .
5
3
I
9
John R. Brown
. .
2
2
2
6
William Lingo
. .
. .
. .
. .
1
..
. .
. .
3
. .
2
I
Otho Devemport
3
7
3
I
14
William Pool
. .
II
II
John Browning
7
I
I
I
IO
Rufus Ricker
2
5
4
I
12
Young P. Barbee
2
2
3
I
8
Ira Cook
2 2
2
. .
2
6
William L. Cook
I
I
2
2
6
Ross Jones
6
I
I
2
IO
Levi S. Coalton
4
7
. .
I
12
James Franks
2
I
I
I
5
Andrew Motts
. .
I
I
I
6
68
104
64
40
276
Males
Females
Total
Names
Under 21-Over 21 Under 21-Over 21
(7)
Alexander M. Gredd
2
2
. .
6
IO
Aaron Brewer
3
I
I
I
6
Reuben S. Searls
. .
1
. .
I
2
William Scudder
. .
4
. .
. .
4
5
8
I
S
22
Total amount of the county brought over
1526
BURLINGTON CENSUS
Edward Marlow
6
I
I
I
9
James Clark
2
I
3
I
7
Robert Cock
2
3
2
I
8
Armstead Crump
. .
I
I
. .
2
Theodorus Davis
I
3
3
2
9
John Davis
I
I
2
I
5
. .
5
3
I
9
Athrel D. Camp
I
David Sullivan
8
8
Adrian H. Devemport.
.
. .
I504
Names
Males Under 21-Over 21 Under 21-Over 21
HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY
Males Under 21-Over 21 Under 21-Over 21
Total (7)
Beden Davis
2
I
2
I
Kendal Flosey
I
I
. .
I
3
James Davidson
4
I
3
I
9
Jonathan J. King
I
4
I
2
8
Amri Doolittle
3
2
I
I
7
Wm. P. Cowpersthwaite
I
1
I
. .
3
Thomas S. Reynolds
. .
I
I
I
3
Charles Beal
2
2
4
2
David G. McKnight
3
2
. .
I
6
William S. Keeler
I
I
I
I
4
John Dunnigum
1
4
1
I
7
David Harned
2
2
. .
I
5
John W. Travis
5
I
2
I
9
Purnell Veaclı
. .
I
. .
I
2
Anderson Perkinson
2
. .
4
I
7
Thomas Cooper
5
2
I
8
Garretson Vincent
3
I
5
I
IO
William Wade
5
6
1
I
13
Joseph McNeil
. .
2
. .
1
3
Daniel Harges
2
3
3
I
9
William Walace
I
I
3
I
6
John Harris
4
I
5
II
60
50
50
28
188
Total brought over.
.1714
Names
Males Under 21-Over 21 Under 21-Over 21 Total
William Wright
5
I
3
I
IO
Gilbert Stinson
4
2
I
I
8
John Sampson
6
5
2
I
1.4
William Lewis
6
4
I
1
12
Morton M. McCarver
2
2
3
7
Samuel S. White
2
2
I
2
7
Jeremiah White
·
2
2
I
5
Jonathan Farris
I
I
2
I
5
Nathaniel Stringfield
2
1
I
I
3
George W. Kelley
. .
3
. .
I
4
Thomas Jones
2
I
2
I
6
Thomas Wilbur
I
1
2
I
5
William Stockholm
. .
I
I
I
3
Zadok C. Inghram
. .
I
I
. .
2
Hiram C. Bennet
4
I
2
I
8
. .
. .
I
I
2
Joseph Steel
79
Females
Names
..
1714
Females
80
HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY
Males Females Under 21-Over 21 Under 21-Over 21 Total
Names
Samuel D. Enocks
3
I
I
5
George W. Cook
I
I
2
2
5
Robert C. Kinney
. .
29
I
2
32
Samuel Kinney
I
I
2
I
5
Matthew Alvis
. .
2
3
I
6
Bryant Brown
I
I
2
I
6
William R. Ross
2
. .
I
3
Sulifand S. Ross
4
4
2
2
I2
Jolın Sackett
4
I
4
I
10
Alexander Black
3
I
7
I
12
Robert Rolston
I
I
I
I
4
John B. Gray
. .
2
I
I
4
Samuel F. Stephens
2
I
I
I
5
Jonathan Donnell
I
3
I
. .
5
George H. Beeler
3
2
I
I
7
Carter Wilkie
I
9
I
I
I2
James Wells
I
2
3
2
8
Berry Holland
3
I
3
I
8
Adam Funk
I
I
. .
I
3
David Rorer
2
I
2
I
6
64
99
61
4I
1979
Names
Under 21-Over 21 Under 21-Over 21
Elliott H. Scott
I
I
2
4
Smith Hawkins
3
I
I
I
6
James B. Jones
2
2
I
5
John Martin
3
2
5
Abraham Jones
4
7
2
I
14
Matthew Edmunson
2
2
I
5
Nicholas Harman
4
. .
I
5
John L. Eoff
. .
I
2
I
4
John C. Newton
1
I
I
I
4
James W. Mitchell
2
4
. .
I
7
William Boyd
I
2
I
I
5
1 I
28
14
II
64
No. brought up from pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8.
Total
. 2043
. .
I
7
. .
2
1 .. N. English
I
I
. .
2
William E. King
. .
Males
Females
Total (9)
·
1979
. .
. .
81
HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY
According to our computation this census reports :
Males under twenty-one years of age. 1,809
Males over twenty-one years of age. 1,789
120
Females under twenty-one years of age.
1,628
Females over twenty-one years of age.
899
729
CITY OF BURLINGTON
Total population
517
Males under twenty-one years of age 135
Males over twenty-one years of age. 177
Male population 312
Females under twenty-one years of age.
125
Females over twenty-one years of age.
80
Female population 205
The above census is approximately correct. There were at the time many per- sons living in now Lee and Muscatine counties whose names do not appear in the above report. Wright Williams, whose name appears in the above report, settled in what is now Louisa County. He was born in Crawford County, Indiana, and located in now Louisa County in 1836. He was the first county judge of Louisa County. Was active in all matters pertaining to the public welfare. Was one of the delegates to the first constitutional convention. Was a member of the first and second legislative assemblies of Iowa Territory. William L. Toole, whose name appears in the above census report, was a Virginian by birth. He came to old Des Moines County in 1836 and set up his Lares and Penates near the mouth of the Iowa River. Was a prominent man in all the affairs of Louisa County. Was a member of the board of county commissioners in 1838. Was a delegate to the constitutional convention of 1844. John Deilil and John Ronalds came to old Des Moines County in 1836 and settled in now Louisa County. Mr. William L. Toole in Annals of Iowa, 1868, says, "the first occupants of the district in Louisa County was in 1835, near the mouth of the Iowa River and near the ancient mounds and forts. Among those were Harrison, Chreighton, Deihl, Toole, McClary, Parsons, Benson and Shuck. They, like many of the first settlers of Iowa, impelled by the pioneering spirit, forsook friends and comforts and located here near the wigwams of those celebrated Indian chiefs, where hundreds of Indians could be seen engaged in their savage sports and occupations of hunt- ing and fishing. They became personally acquainted with Black Hawk, who was usually attired in citizens' dress. In this location, as in others, great strife and contention was kept up in those days through conflicting interests in claims, or the encroachments of unprincipled adventurers. Cabins were burned, torn down or Vol. 1- 8
82
HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY
unroofed, and the lives of persons frequently placed in jeopardy." As we pass along we come next to the territory comprising the now Muscatine County, which originally belonged to old Des Moines County. The first settlement made in this part of Des Moines County was by Benjamin Nye at the mouth of Pine Creek. At the close of the Black Hawk war a man by the name of Farnham, with two other men, settled at "Grindstone Bluff" and there erected a trading house. John Vanater was the first settler in the now City of Muscatine and a man by the name of G. W. Casey the second. Casey came to Muscatine in the spring of 1836. His wife died in the fall of the same year, and was the first white woman buried at Muscatine. In August, 1836, Suel Foster and his brother, Dr. John H. Foster, purchased a one-sixth interest in the town lots of a claim which Mr. Vanater and Captain Clark had caused to be surveyed and platted. Captain Clark then lived at Clarks Ferry, subsequently called "Buffalo." At the old settlers' reunion of Muscatine, held on August 30, 1898, there were present the following pioneers, who were residents of now Muscatine County, when its territory was a part of old Des Moines County. Mrs. Laura Patterson, daughter of Benjamin Nye, 1834; Mrs. Moses Gouch, 1836; Hiram Jarrard, 1836; Mrs. A. T. Banks, 1836; Mrs. W. A. Duray, 1836; James Keefover, Sr., 1836; James Keefover, Jr., 1836; Mrs. Nabugal, 1836; Edward Clark, 1836. We cannot pass by and fail to record the name of one of the mothers, an early settler in old Des Moines County. We take the following from the Hawk Eye, June 3, 1883 :
DEATII OF A PIONEER MOTHER
"While the town is crowded with the people gathered to celebrate the first half century of our history, and to commemorate the coming of the first white settlers to this place, one of the first settlers was slowly passing away from the scenes that have so wonderously changed since her foot first stepped upon this soil. Mrs. John G. Bosch came to this city in 1833 with her first husband, Francis T. Bercht, a German carpenter, who was accidentally killed in 1853. August 21, 1853, she married John G. Bosch, the brewer, and, with the exception of three trips to Europe and other health resorts in this country at which she sought relief from severe rheumatic trouble of eleven years' duration, she has lived in this city, where she died last Sunday morning at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Theodore Waldschmidt, 604 South Main Street. The deceased was well known and admired for her amiable character, and though weakening unto death, the venerable pioneer mother thought of the celebration and expressed a desire to be with her old friends of early days. She was born October 10, 1810, in Wurten- burg, came to Florida in 1825, removed to Burlington in 1832, married Frances T. Bercht in 1833. Two children, Mrs. Theodore Waldschmidt of this city and Charles Bercht of East St. Louis, are her surviving children."
As far as obtainable we here give the names of pioneers who came to the now Des Moines County when it was a part of old Des Moines County.
Anderson, James A., April 11, 1836 Avery, Robert, 1836
A Archer, Hezekiah Avery, Henry, 1836
Archer, Obadiah
CHRISTIANA BERCHT
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