In a message dated 1/26/05 11:31:55 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Tabitha Ella "Bitha" White, daughter of William Carroll White and Cornelia Cothran, was born 18 Jul 1879 in Rutherford County, TN. While this person should have been enumerated on the 1880 census, I have yet to find him or her. Teresa, I think I can solve the mystery of why Tabitha White did not appear on the 1880 Census. The following information is from the Federal Population Census Instruction for 1880. SCHEDULE No. 1 [7-296].—POPULATION Upon it is to be entered, as previously noted, the name of every man, woman, and child who, on the first day of June, 1880 shall have his or her "usual place of abode" within the enumerator’s district. No child born between the 1st day of June, 1880, and the day of the enumerator’s visit (say June 5 or 15 or 25) is to be entered upon the schedule. On the other hand, every person who was a resident of the district upon the 1st day of June, 1880, but between that date and the day of the enumerator’s visit shall have died, should be entered on the schedule precisely as if still living. The object of the schedule is to obtain a list of the inhabitants on the 1st day of June, 1880, and all changes after that date, whether in the nature of gain or loss, are to be disregarded in the enumeration Thelma