Hi Maggie, Yes, I can relate to that. In fact I got quite a chuckle out of it. I have a g-g-g-uncle who died on 19 July 1859, in Auglaize County, Ohio. He still managed to show up in the 1860 census, for that county, which was taken on 19 June 1860. I have a suspicion that no one was home, when the census taker came around, and the census taker got the "information" from the neighbors. They did get all of the names and ages down, pretty well, but they spelled the last name as "Runsin" instead of "Runyon". Norman LOGANHOLMES@aol.com wrote: > A while ago I printed information from this site relating to the age of > family members as enumerated by the census taker. In 1850 it was the age as > of June 1. > > An odd situation in my own file. Family members have stated that a certain > person died September 5, 1850. Yet on the actual census the person appears. > Date the enumerator visited the household was September 12, 1850. > > Would the enumerator have recorded the person because she was living on June > 1, 1850 even though she died September 5th? Has anyone else run across this > situation? > > Maggie Kyger Miller > (loganholmes@aol.com)