Enummeration of Ex-Confederate Soldiers and Widows of Deceased Soldiers, 1911 Submitted by Bill McCullough Date: July 1, 2008 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Archives New Orleans Public Library Louisiana. Civil District Court (Orleans Parish) Enummeration of Ex-Confederate Soldiers and Widows of Deceased Soldiers, 1911 Act# 71 of the 1908 Louisiana Legislature provided for the enumeration of all ex-Confederate soldiers and the widows of deceased soldiers residing in each parish of the state. The enumeration was to include the name, age, state of enlistment, regiment and company in which served, kind and amount of property owned, occupation, and physical infirmity of each (though the act did not require it, the forms prepared for the enumeration by the State Auditor of Public Accounts also included a space for date of marriage, to be entered for all widows). The enumeration was to be made by the Assessor of each parish in the state at the same time that he made his enumeration of educatable children. The count was to be repeated every four years thereafter. Each assessor was to forward copies of the enumeration to the clerk of court in his parish, to the clerk of Civil District Court in Orleans Parish, and to the State Auditor. Volumes for Orleans Parish and eighteen other parishes are present in the Civil Courts Collection. There are nine books for Orleans and single volumes for Acadia, Ascension, Cameron, Catahoula, Concordia, Grant, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lincoln, Livingston, Morehouse, St.Bernard, St.Helena, Tangipahoa, Tensas, Vernon, Webster and West Feliciana Parishes. The volumes are dated 1911. We have no records for later enumerations (the law requiring new counts every four yaers may well have been repealed sometime after 1911). Records for additional parishes MAY be housed in the individual parish courthouses. We know from the inventory of the Natchitoches Parish court house prepared by the Historical Records Survey in 1938 that the volume for that parish was in the parish archives at that time. The HRS survey for St. Bernard Parish does not list the local enumeration for that parish. The records are also available on microfilm (VT 840 1911). Name Ward Age State Enlisted Regiment Company Property Owned/Assessed Amount/Assessment Employement Physical Infirmities Date of Marriage ADDISON, Malinda, Mrs. 3 74 LA Blank Blank None None None Catarrh 1858 ALLEN, A. 1 64 VA 5 Virginia B None None Painter Old Age Blank BEDGOOD, J.H. 5 79 MS Blank Blank 1 horse; 1 wagon; 70 acres land $160 Farmer Old Age Blank BLACKWELL, M.T. 6 74 LA 28th Louisiana F 1 horse; 4 cows; 20 acres land $90 None Old Age Blank BOSWELL, George W. 6 68 LA 16th Louisiana G 2 horses; 6 cattle; 70 sheep; 2 buggies; 80 acres land $300 Farming None Blank BRAY, David 1 72 LA B None None None Worn out; Old Age BROOMLY, M.A. 2 71 AK Mc Vaur K None None None Old Age; blind Blank BULLOCK, W.S. 1 64 TX First Texas Home Guard Blank 4 cattle; 8 acres of land $420 Physical Employment Ruptured Blank BUSH, J.W. 1 67 LA First Louisiana Regiment B 40 acres of land $40 None Old age; wounds in battle Blank BUTTLER, J.T. 1 69 LA 19th Infantry K 1 horse; 1 cow; 6 improved lots $340 None None Blank CAIN, John H. 1 67 MS 40th Mississippi B 1 horse; 2 1/2 acres land $20 None Old Age Blank CAPPS, Mrs. Solomen 4 68 GA Colonel Vinern G None None None Nervous Prostations January 1867 CAVANAUGH, Mrs. P.H. 1 57 LA First Louisiana Volunteers B None None None None 1872 CLUNEY, Pat H. 3 73 LA 2nd Louisiana Moon Guards None None None Cancer on face; wounds received in war Blank CONERLY, J.W. 2 66 LA Eugene Avos? I None None None Old Age Blank CONERLY, William 2 78 MS 33rd Mississippi E 30 acres land $30 None Old Age Blank CONNER, A.T. 2 69 TX First Texas K None None Truck Farming Shot through arm Blank CRAWFORD, Thos. F. 6 72 LA 28th Louisiana K 1 horse; 4 cattle; 1 wagon; 80 acres land $180 Farming None Blank CRYER, J.C. 4 64 LA 18th Louisiana Cavalry Tahatas 2 horses; 6 cattle; 1 wagon; 30 acres land $150 Farming Ruptured Blank CRYER, John 4 77 LA Miles Legion D None None None Blind Blank DAVENPORT, Mary Ann (Mrs.) 2 89 AL 12th Louisiana Capt. Mike Horn (?) None None None Old Age Blank DAVIS, John C. 5 68 MO 7th Missouri K 15 cattle; 2 horses; 1 buggy; 40 acres land $225 Farmer Left arm off; rupture on left side Blank DEASON, Seborn 5 75 LA Miles Legion D None None None Hemorrage of lung Blank