1870 WINN PARISH LOUISIANA CENSUS ABSTRACT Submitted by Annette Carpenter Womack P.O. Box 1320 Winnfield, LA 71483-1320 (318) 628-3058 or 628-6768 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** This abstracted copy is not expected to be used by researchers as the "complete" record as seen on the Federal Census. This "secondary record" is published in alphabetical order as a convenient starting place only. Once a person is found, then it is strongly recommended that the researcher go to the "original" federal census for all the information as was originally given. This book is not meant to be all-inclusive. It is meant to ease the "starting point." Please go to the original federal census on microfilm for confirmation of the facts. DO NOT EVER TAKE ABSTRACTED MATERIAL AS ORIGINAL. But please be aware, both I and the census taker made mistakes. We are only human. However, with your help we can correct many of them. My name, address, and phone number is at the top of this file. If you have had luck in using this, a postcard would be nice. Please let me know What families you are researching. Other books are also available, as well as research services. Please send SASE for information. GENERAL NOTES ON THE 1870 CENSUS AS TAKEN IN WINN PARISH: The 1870 residents of the parish were from many places, including several there were foreign born. I counted a total of 4,883 with the most (2,735) or 55.5% being from Louisiana. The others (in order of total numbers) were from: Mississippi 748, Alabama 541, Georgia 345, South Carolina 160, Tennessee 62, Texas 60, North Carolina 60, Arkansas 53, Virginia 49, Kentucky 14, Florida 10, Indiana 8, New York 4, Maryland 4, Ohio 3, Illinois 3 and Missouri with 2. Massachusetts, Maine, and Pennsylvania had 1 each. The foreign born included: 6 from Ireland, 3 from Prussia, and 2 from England and also Germany. There were also 1 person from each of the following: Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, Poland, and Africa. The 1870 residents of Winn Parish were of all ages, ranging from just born to age 90 years. The youngest apparently was a Rinny? baby which was born in August 1870, but the entry was marked out. The census was supposed to include only those in the parish as of June 1, 1870. Thank goodness for human errors and not only was the Rinny? child written down, but also babies for the following, a Shelton child born in June, a Thorington infant born in July and a Burns child born in August of 1870. All were marked through. The following families had babies born in May of 1870: McKlewee, Champion, Walker, Griffen, Teddlie, Nash, Lestage, Davis, Watson, Rogers, Blankenship, Sims, Emmons, Hatton, Evans, McCarty, and Simmons. The oldest person in the parish was 81 year-old Samuel Freeman from North Carolina. There were three 80 year olds. 28 residents in their seventies, most were from South Carolina, Georgia, with 1 person being from France! None of the 70 year olds were from Louisiana. 78 residents were in their sixties. One of them was from Italy, but again none were born in Louisiana. Notes from transcribing of the census: The spelling of the names were at most, left as was in the record, except for those family's names of which I know, which I spelled using the present day spelling and/or the spelling most frequently used in the cemetery records, and placed the census spelling in (sp. Name as was spelled in the census). Some had several spellings, in which case I referenced the spelling of the name and used the most common spelling for indexing purposes. As with most human's I am sure I made decisions that some will not agree with. In some cases, I may have made mistakes in reading the name, age, etc. If I did, please let me know and I'll correct them in a later printing. If you know the maiden name of a wife, I'll also add it. Please send me your family group sheet, INCLUDING your documentation. 1. In column one is the surname. I have spelled it as shown in the census or if known, the way it is currently spelled by parish residents. Alternate spellings are given, if known and referenced for your use. 2. Column two gives the given name. 3. Column three gives the ward and the household number. Please note: although Winn Parish had 10 wards, only the following were used by the census takers in 1870. Wards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, - 8, 9, -. At times those were not correctly enumerated. Some wards were missed entirely. Some were mixed. Some....I just don't know what happened. Your guess is as good as mine. 4. Column four gives age/sex/color. It also gives the month of birth for infants. 5. Gives the place/state of birth. 6. Gives my "RIN" number. This is the number given to an individual as they are added to my computerized data base. There is no logical system, each person is assigned a number "by the computer program" as the person is entered. And a deleted number may be reused at a later date. Unreadable names are underlined. [&Other spellings] [Full names] ['Maiden names] are enclosed in brackets. The notation (FORG) behind the age/sex/color, means that one or both of that person's parents was foreign born. If the person in the census was "foreign" born then the notation is omitted. The term (REMK) means there was some remark in the last column of the census, such as deaf, idiot, etc. Information in brackets was added by author/compiler who may be contacted. Normally those with RIN# numbers have additional data that has been entered into my computer data base and may be linked to other families. Please send a long Self Addressed Stamped Envelope and $3.00 printout fee for each family group sheet requested. Please send census year, name of family, and ward-house number and RIN number. There is no guarantee as to amount of information given on group sheet, however, there may be: additional children, spouses, maiden names, parents, notes/source material, etc. Please check the date of printing. The RIN numbers are correct up to December 1996. I am adding information and families into my database every day. All submissions are welcomed. Either GEDCOM or paper copies are accepted with many thanks. NOTES FOR WARD ONE: There were 157 households enumerated in Ward 1. Ward 1 consisted of the following community areas: Winnfield and Joyce. NOTES FOR WARD TWO: There were 122 households enumerated in Ward 2. Ward 2 consist of the following community areas: Colgrade, Curry, Flatcreek, and Royal. In ward 2, the census taker--at times--put everyone in the household under the same name. It was very confusing. I so noted what I suspected to be the correct name to be and cross referenced the names when I thought there was any chance of error. Several names of children were marked through. This--I feel--was because the census was suppose to list those in the household as of June 1, 1870 and the child was born "after" that date, but thankfully the census taker listed him/her anyway. In ward 2, most of the populations was born in the following Louisiana, but those from Mississippi tended to congregate here. NOTES FOR WARD THREE: There were 96 households enumerated in Ward 3. Ward 3 consisted of the following community areas: Gansville, Sikes, Newport, Hebron, Hickery Valley, and Hill. NOTES FOR WARD FOUR: There were 124 households enumerated in Ward 4. Ward 4 consisted of the following community areas: Cypress Creek, Gansville, and Bethlehem. In ward 4, the population was again mostly born in Louisiana, but the following states of Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia were better represented here. There were also 1 person born in Ireland, 1 born in Italy, and 2 born in Prussia. NOTES FOR WARD FIVE: According to the pages Ward 5 consisted of the following communities: St. Maurice and Atlanta. The last number for a household was #71, but this deceptive. There were actually 98 households counted as being in the ward. (See the following notes.) The numbering of households in this ward was very inaccurate. The system started in Atlanta on August 6th with #1 and went through #52 on the 8th day of August, then it jumped to #207 in Atlanta on the 21st of July and followed through to the 23 of July to household #233. #54 began in St. Maurice on July 12 in Ward 5 until #61 where ward 6 picked up with #62 until household #71 was reached. This was very confusing. I chose to use the numbers 1-71 as Ward 5 and the numbers 207-233 as Ward 6. If you think I'm backwards (and knowing my luck, I probably am) I'm sorry. NOTES FOR WARD SIX: When I first copied the 1870 Winn Parish census, there were only 11 households listed as being in Ward 6. Ward 6 should have consisted of the following community areas: Sardis, Wheeling, Five Forks and Montgomery, but it showed only as part of St. Maurice. Those 11 households were listed as numbers 61 through 71 at the end of Ward 5. Unfortunately, many researchers have yet to learn there were two filmings of the 1870 census by the federal government. The first filming (1950) in many cases is poorly copied and hard to read, so I did like most researchers, I used the second filming for my photocopying and transcribing as most libraries have the second filming (1967). However, as in the case of the Winn Parish census of 1870, the first filming is usually the best in terms of information. In the seventeen years separating the two filmings, many pages have been lost or damaged. In the 1870 Winn Parish, Ward 6 sustained the biggest loss... however, by going back and slowly "plowing" through and comparing the first filming to the second, I found a total of 132 more families. These families are numbered 72 to 206 in Ward 6 and are NOT found in the second filming (1967). (There were no additional families for the other wards.) However, it is possible that because of the West-Kimbrell problems, the census taker(s) in wards 5 and 6 were unable to complete his/their duties, either because of the suspicious nature of the residents or because of the census taker's fear of going from house to house. As you will notice the only family of Kimbralls listed for Winn Parish is located in Ward 4 in the northwestern part of the parish, while the only West family located is in Ward 3 in the northeastern part of the parish. However, there is a possibility that some of the families were enumerated in the Natchitoches census for that area. NOTES FOR WARD SEVEN: No ward 7 was shown. It is assumed (because of the names of the residents) it was mixed in with Ward 8. NOTES FOR WARD EIGHT: Ward 8 should have been the communities of Sanders, Union, Hill, Calvin, Coldwater, and Gumsprings. All of it was listed as the post office of Pine Ridge. Number 234 starts after number 53. Part of this should have been Ward 10. I believe the numbers 1-53 were Ward 10-Pine Ridge and the higher numbers were Ward 8. I am afraid that there could have been some lost pages here in both the first and second filming. (See notes on Ward 6.) NOTES FOR WARD NINE: Should have consisted of the Jordon Hill, Moore, and Packton areas. It was listed entirely as Winnfield. NOTES FOR WARD TEN: See notes on ward 8. Please contact me if you find any errors. Thank you. Annette Carpenter Womack ACWomack@aol.com