Dyer County, TN               1850 Federal Census                 DISTICT INFORMATION

The files on-line for this completed census in the following directory:
http://us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/tn/dyer/1850/

ABOUT DYER COUNTY:

Dyer County was founded by a Private Act of Tennessee, passed on October 16, 1823.
The area was a part of Tennessee that was previously legally recognized as belonging 
to the Chickasaw Native Americans as "Indian Lands".  The county was named for Robert 
Henry Dyer.  Dyer had been an army officer in the Creek War and War of 1812, and a 
cavalry colonel in the First Seminole War of 1818 before becoming a state senator.  
He was instrumental in the formation of the counties of Dyer and Madison County, 
Tennessee. 


Microfilm Roll# M432-877
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             CIVIL                  STAMPED     
STATUS       DISTRICT             PAGE#-RANGE      TRANSCRIBER        PROOFREADER
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On-Line      District 1            167A-173B       Lynn McCandless    Russell Anderson
On-Line      District 2            174B-179A       Lynn McCandless    Russell Anderson
On-Line      District 3            180A-185A       Lynn McCandless    Russell Anderson
On-Line      District 4            186A-192B       Lynn McCandless    Russell Anderson
On-Line      District 5            193A-196A       Lynn McCandless    Russell Anderson
On-Line      District 6            196B-203A       Lynn McCandless    Russell Anderson
On-Line      District 7            203B-208B       Lynn McCandless    Russell Anderson
On-Line      District 8            214A-218B       Lynn McCandless    Russell Anderson
On-Line      District 9            219A-226A       Lynn McCandless    Russell Anderson
On-Line      District 10           211A-213A       Lynn McCandless    Russell Anderson
On-Line      District 11           209A-210B       Lynn McCandless    Russell Anderson
On-Line      District 12           226B-229B       Lynn McCandless    Russell Anderson

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This Census was transcribed by Lynn Pierce Appling McCandless and proofread by 
Russell Anderson.  The USGenWeb Census Project®, http://www.us-census.org/
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