HENRY COUNTY, TN 1860 FEDERAL CENSUS http://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/xtn/henry/1860/ Copyright (c) 2010 by Don Robbins VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV USGENWEB (US-CENSUS) NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================== NON-Std Formatting by USGenWeb Census Project® File Manager, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: Prepared by Donald Robbins Transcription aid by Betty Hawley Checked by D. K. Robbins June 16, 2010 Census Sheet's Format ------------------------------- Census Sheet Header Information ------------------------------- Each Census Sheet consists of 40 lines. The Header information contains a place for the Date of entry, Post Office, The County Name (Henry) and the name of the recorder of the information. ------------------------------- Census Sheet Detail information ------------------------------- Column 1 - Dwelling - houses numbered in the order of visitation Column 2 - Families, numbered in the order of visitation Column 3 - The name of every person whose usual place of abode on the first day of June, 1860 was in this family Column 4 - Age Column 5 - Sex Column 6 - Color, White, Black or Mulatto or Indian Column 7 - Profession, Occupation or Trade of each person, male and female, over 15 years of age Column 8 - Value of Real Estate Column 9 - Value of Personal Estate Column 10 - Place of Birth, Naming the State, Territory, or Country Column 11 - Married within the year Column 12 - Attended School within the year Column 13 - Person over 20 who could not read or write Column 14 - Whether deaf & dumb, blind, insane, idiotic, pauper or convict In the interest of getting the information transcribed to an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet, some adjustments were made in the format of the transcription. A new line was created, which contains the Page Number and Line Number that the information was transcribed from. The Surname is in Caps, along with the date of the census page, the census district, the Post Office, and the information from Column 1 and Column 2. The information from Columns 11, 12, 13 was encoded following the Column 10 information, Place of Birth. The encoding is: M, for married within the year, S, for attending school within the year, and I, for illiterate for a check in Column 13 for persons over 20 who could not read or write. The information from Column 14 is added, as is, to the person's line. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The information for the 1860 Census for Henry County consists of 343 pages. The information for Haywood County is on Microfilm Reel M653-1256 COUNTS The Dwellings in Henry County are numbered from 1 to 2354 There are 2389 families in this grouping. Number of White Males 7553 Number of White Females 7051 Number of Black Males 4 Number of Black Females 6 Number of Mulatto Males 0 Number of Mulatto Females 0 Number of Students 2177 Number of Illiterates 329 Number of Married 118 in the last year PLACES OF BIRTH Tennessee 10180 North Carolina 1818 Virginia 614 Kentucky 502 South Carolina 208 Alabama 63 Ireland 55 Miss 52 Georgia 33 Illinois 31 Pennsylvania 30 Arkansas 20 Missouri 18 NY 17 Ohio 11 Massachusetts 10 Indiana 9 Maryland 9 Engl 8 NH 7 Germany 6 Canada 5 Conneticut 4 NJ 4 Vermont 4 Scot 3 DC 3 France 1 Unk 1 OCCUPATIONS by name artist 1 Artist 2 Auctioner 1 boarder 1 Bapt Min 4 Bar Keeper 2 Barber 1 Black Smith 18 Boarding 2 Boat Maker 2 Book Seller 1 Brick Mason 10 clerk 24 C H C 1 Cabinent Maker 8 Carpenter 40 Circuit Judge 1 Coach Maker 3 Coach Trimmer 1 Confectioner 3 Constable 1 Cooper 1 Cotton Factor 1 Cotton Spinner 2 Courier 2 Day Laborer 6 Dentist 2 Deputy Sheriff 1 Ditcher 2 Engineer 7 Factory Maid 2 Farm Hand 3 Farm Laborer 130 Farm Mangr 1 Farmer 1122 Ferryman 1 Grocer 7 Harness Maker 3 Hotel Keeper 3 JP 5 Laborer 49 Lady of Pleasure 2 Lawyer 13 Livery Stable Kpr 1 Machinist 1 Mail Carrier 1 Mail Driver 1 Manufacturer 1 MD 25 Merchant 49 Meth Min 7 officer 22 overseer 21 Painter 6 Peddling 1 Plasterer 2 Pres Min 4 Register 1 RR Agent 2 RR Foreman 1 RR Hand 1 RR Laborer 30 spinster 267 student(law) 5 student(med) 10 Saddler 11 Saw Mill 1 Sawyer 2 Seamstress 103 Sheppard 1 Sheriff 1 Shoe Maker 13 Silver Smith 2 Stage Driver 1 Stone Cutter 1 tax collector 1 Teacher 32 Tinner 2 Tobacco Trader 2 Tobacconist 30 Trader 5 Trading Agent 1 Trading 1 Wagoner 14 Wheel Wright 5 Wood Chopper 5 INFIRMITIES & OTHERS blind 1 deaf 1 deaf & dumb 4 insane 2 invalid 1 pauper 6 OCCUPATIONS by frequencies Farmer 1122 spinster 267 Farm Laborer 130 Seamstress 103 Laborer 49 Merchant 49 Carpenter 40 Teacher 32 RR Laborer 30 Tobacconist 30 MD 25 clerk 24 officer 22 overseer 21 Black Smith 18 Wagoner 14 Lawyer 13 Shoe Maker 15 Saddler 11 Brick Mason 10 student(med) 10 Cabinent Maker 8 Engineer 7 Grocer 7 Meth Min 7 Day Laborer 6 Painter 6 JP 5 student(law) 5 Trader 5 Wheel Wright 5 Wood Chopper 5 Bapt Min 4 Pres Min 4 Coach Maker 3 Confectioner 3 Farm Hand 3 Harness Maker 3 Hotel Keeper 3 Artist 2 Bar Keeper 2 Cotton Spinner 2 Courier 2 Dentist 2 Ditcher 2 Factory Maid 2 Lady of Pleasure 2 Plasterer 2 RR Agent 2 Sawyer 2 Silver Smith 2 Tinner 2 Tobacco Trader 2 artist 1 Auctioner 1 boarder 1 Barber 1 Boarding 1 Book Seller 1 C H C 1 Circuit Judge 1 Coach Trimmer 1 Constable 1 Cooper 1 Cotton Factor 1 Deputy Sheriff 1 Farm Mangr 1 Ferryman 1 Livery Stable Kpr 1 Machinist 1 Mail Carrier 1 Mail Driver 1 Manufacturer 1 Peddling 1 Register 1 RR Foreman 1 RR Hand 1 Saw Mill 1 Sheppard 1 Sheriff 1 Stage Driver 1 Stone Cutter 1 tax collector 1 Trading Agent 1 Trading 1 Transcriber's notes: The census taker in Henry County was: James E. Fowler at P138-31 The census takers were very careful to note vacant dwellings. Some of the occupations are marked with an asterisk (*). This indicates they also farmed. There was a surrogate enumerator/tabulator for Dist 15, 16, 18, 19, 20. He labelled all females over 16 as either a Seamstress or spinster. He also distributed the students and illeterates to a specific person. In all of the other districts, there is just a count for the number of students in a house hold, or for the number of illiterates in a house hold. We took the liberty of distributing these to a specific person. When there was an illeterated for a family, we assigned it to the wife. In our previous census work, this is generally the case. For the distribution of the students, if there was a question of where the check mark should go, we chose the Male over the Female child. Again, this is based on what we have encountered in the othere census that we have done. But in most cases, we believe that the distribution is reasonable. HISTORY OF HENRY COUNTY Henry County History Henry County Facts: The Tennessee General Assembly created Henry County on November 7, 1821, and named in honor of Patrick Henry (1736-1799), Virginia statesman, patriot and Revolutionary leader, member of the Virginia colonial and state legislatures and the Continental Congress, governor of Virginia. Henry County became the gateway for the settlement of West Tennessee and beyond. The Henry County Court House was erected in 1823 in Paris, West Tennessee's oldest incorporated municipality. The county counted 31,115 residents in the 2000 census. The County seat is Paris. Henry County is bordered by Calloway County, Kentucky (north), Stewart County (northeast), Benton County (southeast), Carroll County (south), Weakley County (west) and Graves County, Kentucky (northwest). Cities and Towns include Cottage Grove, Henry, Paris, Puryear. Extended History: During the Civil War, military units, including the Fifth Tennessee Infantry Regiment, organized on the courthouse lawn. Henry County sent more than 2,500 volunteers to the Confederacy and earned the title Volunteer County of the Volunteer State. In March 1862 General Ulysses S. Grant ordered four companies and a battery of artillery into Paris. The Union forces attacked an encampment of 400 Confederate soldiers but retreated toward Paris Landing after a short engagement. In October 1864 General Nathan Bedford Forrest began his Johnsonville campaign at Paris Landing, where he captured four Union gunboats, fourteen transports, twenty barges, twenty-six pieces of artillery, $6,700,000 worth of property, and 150 prisoners. Beginning with Isham Green Harris, Henry County provided Tennessee with three governors. Born in Franklin County in 1818, Harris moved to Paris as a young boy. He served in both state houses before his election as governor in 1859. As Tennessee's only Confederate governor, Harris served as brigadier general aide-de-camp to Generals Albert S. Johnston, Braxton Bragg, and Joseph E. Johnston. In March 1864 Harris was involved in a brief skirmish with Union troops near Mansfield in Henry County which left two Confederate soldiers wounded. After the war, he served twenty years in the U.S. Senate and was president pro tempore of the Senate at his death in 1897. James Davis Porter, born in Paris in 1828, was elected to the state legislature in 1859. He helped organize the Army of Tennessee and was General Benjamin F. Cheatham's chief of staff. Porter was elected governor for two terms beginning in 1874. He later served as assistant secretary of state, minister to Chile, president of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway, president of the University of Nashville, and chancellor of Peabody College. Porter died at his home in Paris in 1912. Thomas Clarke Rye, born in Camden in 1863, moved to Paris in 1902. He was governor during World War I, serving from 1915 to 1919. Rye became a chancery court judge in 1919 and served twenty years. He died at his home in Paris in 1953. Other political figures from Henry County include General J. D. C. Atkins, a Confederate congressman and five-time member of the U.S. Congress, chair of the House Committee on Appropriations, and later commissioner of Indian Affairs. John Wesley Crockett, the eldest son of the legendary Davy Crockett, took his father's old congressional seat in 1837. Justice Howell E. Jackson was a U.S. senator before he became a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court in 1893. Henry Countians who have had an impact on education include Dudley M. Clements, who began the nation's first vocational agricultural program following the passage of the Smith-Hughes Act. E. W. Grove-Henry County High School, Tennessee's first privately endowed public high school honored Edwin Wiley Grove, who headed the Paris Medicine Company and Grove Laboratories, which produced Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. Henry County has produced a number of university presidents, including Dr. C. C. Sonny Humphreys, Memphis State University; Dr. Thomas D. Jarrett, Atlanta University; Dr. Mordecai Johnson, Howard University; and Dr. Joe Morgan, Austin Peay State University. Entertainers from Henry County include Rattlesnake Annie, country music singer; Bobby Jones, award-winning gospel performer; Buster Jones, host of Soul Unlimited; Cherry Jones, Tony Award-winning actress; Merle Kilgore, country music writer and manager; Keith Lancaster, founder of the Acapella Music Group; Ula Love, Hollywood starlet and member of the Ziegfield Follies; Harry Neal, member of the duo-piano team of Nelson and Neal; Ricky Revel, country music singer; Jackie de Shannon, pop music singer; and Hank Williams Jr., Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year. Other prominent Henry Countians include Vernon Jarrett, newspaper columnist and social commentator; Virginia Weldon Kelly, syndicated columnist; Ethel McFadden, the first Miss Tennessee; Christine Reynolds, the state's first female cabinet member; Miss Pearl Routon, artist and one of those responsible for naming the iris as Tennessee's official cultivated flower; and Dr. Henrietta Veltman, who delivered over four thousand babies during her fifty years of practice. Vernon McGarity received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II. Camp Tyson, built near Routon in 1941 and named for Brigadier General Lawrence D. Tyson, was the U.S. Army's only barrage balloon training center during World War II. Henry County's first tourist attraction, Sulphur Well, was created by accident in 1821, when an artesian well of sulphur water was struck in an attempt to locate a large salt bed on a former Chickasaw reservation. Eventually a summer resort was erected at the site to accommodate the large numbers of people who came to drink the water, which was believed to have health benefits. Many sought refuge at Sulphur Well during the 1837 yellow fever epidemic. In 1944 Sulphur Well was covered by the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kentucky Lake, the largest man-made lake in the United States and the second largest in the world. After the creation of Paris Landing State Park in 1945, the lake soon became a popular recreation destination. Paris acquired the name Capital City of Kentucky Lake, and tourism took an important role in the area's economy. The World's Biggest Fish Fry at Paris emerged as one of Tennessee's premier festivals and draws tens of thousands of visitors, and politicians, into Paris and Henry County during the last full week of April. The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture (c) Tennessee Historical Society - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - THE STORY TELLERS We are the chosen. My feelings are, in each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again, to tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know, and approve. To me, doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors you have a wonderful family you would be proud of us? How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who am I and why do I do the things I do? It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that they fought to make and keep us a Nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are them and they are us. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take their place in the long line of family storytellers. That, is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and put flesh on the bones. Author unknown The 1860 Census or Lots of Questions Answered The 1860 Census lists a dwelling number and family number and each sheet lists the county as well as town and post office name. Questions answered on the 1860 census include, name, age and sex of each individual; color, occupation, value of real and personal property; birthplace, whether married within the year (m.y.), whether attended school, can read or write and the date of the enumeration. Also included are boxes to indicate if an individual was a pauper or convict. Here is an article published in 1859 about the upcoming 1860 census: Friday September 23, 1859 Weekly Star THE NEXT CENSUS The year 1860 is the time appointed for taking the eighth census of the United States. From having been originally a simple enumeration's of persons, this Federal census has grown to be a decennial register of the number of inhabitants and their occupation, religious denominations & c, and also a statement of the commerce, manufacturers, arts and industry, and the wealth of the nation. The collection of these statistics has hitherto been attended with immense labor and difficulty. The inquiries of the census takers have not only been baffled by the stupidity and perverseness and ignorance of many to whom they were addressed; but it has been impossible to obtain accurate information upon important subjects because the parties; who alone are presumed capable of imparting it, have never taken the trouble to inform themselves. It often occurs that, in the absence of the head of a family no other member of it is able to give the information required; for instance as to the ages of the different members or it, or the amount of land in cultivation, the number of negroes and their ages, the quantity and value of horses, mules and oxen, etc., or of farming implements or farm products. In town and country similar difficulties are continually met with by the marshals appointed to collect these statistics, and the census is consequently returned incomplete. It is probably that while care will be observed to prevent any frauds or excess in the publication of the next census, it will be ordered by Congress to be taken so as to include all the most important items of information in regard to the progress of our population and our country. In view of this contingency the Nashville News very sensibly suggest that each farmer, this fall , as he gathers his crops, shall keep something like an accurate account of the quality and value of the same; and if he will take the trouble to make out a statement of the names and ages of his family; the number and ages of his servants, the number and value of his horses and mules; the number of bales of cotton, barrels of corn, bushels of wheat, oats, rye, barley, potatoes, etc., and leave it in some place where any member of the family, who may be at home when the deputy marshal shall call, can readily get hold of it, it will save time to all concerned, and very greatly assist to make the census return perfect, complete and satisfactory.