NATIVE KENTUCKIANS WHO WERE HEADS OF HOUSEHOLDS ENUMERATED IN THE 1850 CLAY CO., ILLINOIS, FEDERAL CENSUS: By John W. Tanner Of the 720 families enumerated in the 1850 Clay Co., IL. Federal Census, 143 male heads of households claimed to be natives of Kentucky, and 144 females, or 20%. This was a greater total than from any other state. However, 157 female heads of households claimed to be native of Indiana, but only 100 males. The next closest state represented with the greatest number of natives was Virginia, with 92 and 70 respectively. And though Clay Co. lies on the south edge of Central, IL., fully 50% of the heads of the families in that year were natives to southern of border states, including KY, TN, VA and NC. Sometime after the original census was copied in 1850, the pages in the original ledger were taken from the book and re-arranged. Consequently, nearly all of the first 32 pages of this census are either one page ahead, one page behind, or completely out of order. Where families were continued on a succeeding page, this caused the children of one family to be placed with the parents of another, or other family members to be placed with families to which they did not belong. I have therefore re-arranged these pages in what seems to be a reasonable order, and are so numbered in the following enumeration. Page # Fam. # Name Age Occupation 559 2 Peter GREEN 54 Physician 557 19 G.W. GOBLE 30 (not shown) 560 9 Pherably SORRELLS 44 560 12 William HOLLMAN 65 Farmer 558 27 J.P. HUNGATE 33 Merchant 558 28 Catherine ERWIN 31 563 31 George RUSSELL 48 Farmer 563 33 Jacob COLCLASURE 42 (not shown) 563 33 Mary COLCLASURE 30 564 41 Indiana McCAWLEY 37 565 44 James McCULLOM 44 Farmer 565 48 Jacob WOOLF 27 Farmer 565 49 John LEE 42 Cabinet Maker 565 49 Elizabeth LEE 41 567 60 Jesse KINCADE 29 Farmer 567 61 Sanford WEBSTER 32 Farmer 567 61 Elizabeth WEBSTER 27 567 62 Franklin DAVIS 28 Cooper 567 62 Rebecca DAVIS 27 567 63 Silvester McCAWLEY 25 (not shown) 568 64 A.F. SULLIVAN 39 Farmer 568 64 Cassandra SULLIVAN 39 566 50 R.H. HOLLMAN 31 Farmer 566 51 Gilbert ORITCHETT 30 (None) 566 51 M.W. PRITCHETT 23 566 52 Elizabeth NICKSON 28 566 54 John COLCLASURE 58 Farmer 566 55 Jacob COLCLASURE, SR.55 Farmer 566 56 Eliza SEFTON 37 569 74 Daniel SPEAKS 45 Farmer 569 75 Kesiah HAUKMAN 36