I was looking at the Shelby County 1850 census last night and noticed: several pages of names listed as individuals, not families. all from Ireland. all shown as Laborers Was there an encampment or commune of Irish immigrants in Shelby County then? Possibly railroad workers? I saw in another 1850 census (either Franklin or Spencer) that the State Prision was enumerated, but these Shelby county pages did not have any notation at all regarding this unusual listing. Dan Phillips