There were three matches to my search of the 1850 census for Washington\/Sullivan Counties in Tennessee for name\/age combination of a person I had traced from their death certificate back until the 1860 census when they were first enumerated with their husband. I didn’t have a father’s name because the early 20th century death certificate said father was “unknown.” I wasn’t certain how accurate the mother’s name was either to be honest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I cannot just grab one of those 1850 census entries and say “she’s the one.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I did what I usually do in these cases–try to find the people who matched my search term in later census years. Two of them were easy to eliminate as being the person of interest–20 years later the same name women were still living at home with their parents when the person of interest was married, living with her husband, and three children. She had married at fifteen years of age–or thereabouts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The third one? I found her in Kentucky in 1860 (with the same parents and family)–included that in the discussion and said it eliminated her. Then I realized that my discussion was incomplete. The family could have easily returned to Tennessee if the father had died after 1860. In fact, with a young family, the widow may very well have returned–if her husband died. The person of interest married in Tennessee in 1865. There was plenty of time for that to happen. I could not eliminate the family who moved to Kentucky yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I found the family who had move to Kentucky in 1860 still living there in 1870 and the census match person from 1850 was married and living in Kentucky. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I still have not found the person of interest in 1850. It’s possible her age is wrong and she wasn’t born until after the 1850 census was taken. It’s also possible that she was enumerated under some name variant my searches are not catching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just because there were three potential matches in 1850 did not mean that one of them was her. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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