On the 1840 Perry Co (which included what became Decatur) I found: Thomas Hay 2 1 0 0 0 1 - 1 1 1 0 1 hope this helps Renea [email protected] TNGenWeb County Coordinator for Decatur Co, TN http://www.netease.net/decatur TNGenWeb County Coordinator for Perry Co, TN http://www.netease.net/perry Listowner Decatur, Henderson, Perry Cos, TN [email protected] Listowner Liston surname [email protected] Listowner Rains surname [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Amy Alford <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 10:23 PM Subject: [TNDECATU] Need 1840 Census Lookup >I need a lookup for a family on the 1840 Census, please. I'm not sure if >the county would be Henderson or Decatur. When was Decatur County formed? >Anyway, I'm looking for the following family: > >1830 Census, Henderson County, page 78 >HAY, Thomas 1 male 20-29, 1 female under 5, 1 female 20-29 > >1850 Census, Decatur County, page (uh-oh, didn't copy the page number!!) >household 72 >HAY, Thomas 48 Methodist Minister $600 Ireland > Sarah 30 Tennessee > Mary A. 16 Tenn > William 14 Tenn > Huldah 12 Tenn > Thomas 10 Tenn > Elizabeth 8 Tenn > Isaac 7 Tenn > Jane 5 Tenn > George W 3 Tenn > Emily 1 Tenn > >The wife on the 1840 census will probably not be the Sarah, age 30, who >appears on the 1850 census. I don't know who his first wife was, or what >became of her. Thomas had another son, John Wesley, who was born in 1831 >and was already out of the house by 1850. I have no information on the >female child under 5 who appears on the 1830 census. > >I really appreciate your help, as my local library does not have the 1840 >Census Index for Tennessee. > >Sincerely, >Amy Alford > > >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > -------------------------------- End of TNDECATU-D Digest V00 Issue #174 *************************************** From [email protected] Tue Aug 1 18:56:35 2000 Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from lists6.rootsweb.com (lists6.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.125]) by listsearches.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e721uZw06379 for <[email protected]>; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:56:35 -0700 Received: (from [email protected]) by lists6.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e721uaU16129 for [email protected]; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:56:36 -0700 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:56:36 -0700 Message-Id: <[email protected]> From: [email protected] Subject: TNDECATU-D Digest V00 #174 X-Loop: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/volume00/174 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] ------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain TNDECATU-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 174 Today's Topics: #1 [TNDECATU] Need 1840 Census Lookup ["Amy Alford" <[email protected]>] #2 Re: [TNDECATU] Need 1840 Census Lo ["Sherri Smith" <[email protected]] #3 Re: [TNDECATU] Need 1840 Census Lo ["Bobbie Pierce" <[email protected]>] #4 Re: [TNDECATU] Need 1840 Census Lo ["Renea Burkholder" <[email protected]] #5 Re: [TNDECATU] Need 1840 Census Lo ["Renea Burkholder" <[email protected]] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from TNDECATU-D, send a message to [email protected] that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too.