-----Original Message----- From: Ken Parks <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, March 17, 2000 9:14 AM Subject: [TNROANE] 1820 Roane Co. TN census I'm not Debra, but I needed that also!!! Thanks a million for putting it on the list! Dorothy >Debra, >Did a little searching and came up with this from the TN State Library >and Archives website--now we both know the answer!--Ken > > >DESCRIPTIONS OF CENSUS AND INDEXES > >1790, 1800 and 1810: Tennessee became a state in 1796. The territorial >census schedules and the 1800 census were >lost or destroyed. The 1810 census of Tennessee was also lost, except >for Grainger and Rutherford counties, which >have been indexed. > >1820: This census is incomplete and most East Tennessee counties are >missing. The missing counties are marked with >an * on the following list. Jackson's alphabetical state-wide index >lists the heads-of-household, plus a series of >numbers indicating the sex and approximate age of family members. The >age categories for males, given in order, are: >under 10, 10-15, 16-18, 16-25, 26-44, and over 45. To the right of the >first hyphen are five similar columns for >females in the following age categories: under 10, 10-15, 16-25, 26-44, >and over 45. Following the second hyphen is >a column detailing number of slaves in the household and a column >detailing number of free blacks in the household. >Another index, by Bentley, only shows the heads-of-household with a >county and page number for each. > >ABBREVIATIONS USED FOR TENNESSEE COUNTIES 1820, 1840-1870 > >Each census index entry provides the county name and census page number. > >This list will help you identify county names which have been >abbreviated by the indexer. > >The year the county was created is also listed. > >* Indicates missing from 1820 census. > >A Anderson 1801* >B Bedford 1807 >BE Benton 1835 >BL Bledsoe 1807* >BO Blount 1795* >BR Bradley 1836 >C Campbell 1806* >CA Cannon 1836 >CR Carroll 1821 >CT Carter 1796* >CE Cheatham 1856 >CH Chester 1875 >CL Claiborne 1801* >CY Clay 1870 >CO Cocke 1797* >CF Coffee 1836 >CC Crockett 1845 >CU Cumberland 1856 >D Davidson 1783 >DE Decatur 1845 >DK Dekalb 1837 >DI Dickson 1803 >DY Dyer 1823 >F Fayette 1824 >FE Fentress 1823 >FR Franklin 1807 >G Gibson 1823 >GI Giles 1809 >GR Grainger 1796* >GE Greene 1783* >GU Grundy 1844 >HM Hamblen 1870 >H Hamilton 1819* >HA Hancock 1844 >HR Hardeman 1823 >HD Hardin 1819 >HW Hawkins 1786* >HY Haywood 1823 >HE Henderson 1821 >HN Henry 1821 >HI Hickman 1807 >HO Houston 1871 >HU Humphreys 1809 >J Jackson 1801 >JA James 1871 >JE Jefferson 1792* >JO Johnson 1836 >K Knox 1792* >L Lauderdale 1835 >LK Lake 1870 >LA Lawrence 1817 >LE Lewis 1843 >LI Lincoln 1809 >LO Loudon 1870 >M Macon 1842 >MA Madison 1821 >MR Marion 1817* >MS Marshall 1836 >MU Maury 1807 >MC McMinn 1819* >MN McNairy 1823 >ME Meigs 1836 >MO Monroe 1819* >MT Montgomery 1796 >MOO Moore 1871 >MG Morgan 1817* >O Obion 1823 >OV Overton 1806 >P Perry 1818 >PI Pickett 1879 >PO Polk 1839 >PU Putnam 1854 >R Rhea 1807* >RO Roane 1801* >RB Robertson 1796 >RU Rutherford 1803 >S Scott 1849 >SQ Sequatichie 1858 >SE Sevier 1794* >SH Shelby 1819 >SM Smith 1799 >ST Stewart 1803 >SU Sullivan 1779* >SN Sumner 1786 >T Tipton 1823 >TR Trousdale 1870 >U Unicoi 1875 >UN Union 1850 >V VanBuren 1840 >W Warren 1807 >WA Washington 1777* >WY Wayne 1785 >WE Weakley 1823 >WH White 1806 >WI Williamson 1799 >WL Wilson 1799 > >