When you see "Pauper" after a person's name and usually $10.00, it means the listed person was keeping a pauper at their house, clothing and feeding them. It was cheaper to do that then to send them to the county farm. In the case of Mrs. Spalding below a previous article stated that a blind negro woman who was a slave of Mr. Spalding before emancipation was still living when her. She passed and Mrs. Spalding evidently buried her. Her claim against the county for such was accepted and paid. Dave Hallemann Sleuth.Em@sbcglobal.net > Jefferson Democrat > Hillsboro, Jefferson county, Missouri > > WEDNESDAY, 11 AUGUST 1886; > > Demands against the county were allowed as follows: > H.M. HOPKINS, for U. BALDWIN, pauper $12.50 > Franz GRIMM, road overseer 13.75 > J.F. TYREY, pauper 10.00 > S.J. BURGESS, pauper 10.00 > B. SCHNEIDER, pauper 10.00 > Mrs. SPAULDING, keeping and burying > pauper 22.00 > Charles CENAUGHTY, pauper 10.00 > Alex HUSKEY, sup't county farm 126.76 > Dr. BREWSTER, medical attendance to > paupers and prisoners 62.50 > George D. BARNARD, stationery 4.66 > ROBERTS & Co., bridge lumber 25.66 > W.R. DONNELL, County clerk 61.15 > B. LACKAMP, carpenter work 4.00 > R.W. McMULLIN, publishing 64.55 > Jos J. HOEKEN, goods for courthouse, > jail and roads 8.20 > J.B. DOVER, for road hands 4.00 > Jesse A. LUCAS, for pauper 10.00 > Ed HILDERBRAN, for pauper 10.00

If you have not seen the article on the Jefferson County, MO Poorhouse on the Historical Society site....it might be of interest or help. http://www.rootsweb.com/~mojchs/historyarticles.html I personally think that when it listed; S.J. BURGESS, pauper 10.00 that that was the actual name of the pauper, and they were receiving aid from the county, possibly still living on their own. When it said; Mrs. SPAULDING, keeping and burying pauper 22.00 or Jesse A. LUCAS, for pauper 10.00 That was for someone that kept a pauper at their home, gave them shelter, food, etc.... Sometimes it lists the name of the pauper and also the person keeping them, such as; H.M. HOPKINS, for U. BALDWIN, pauper $12.50 Lisa K. Gendron