WINN UNION SOLDIER CENSUS, 1890. Contributed by Greggory E. Davies. ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Greggory E. Davies 120 Ted Price Lane Winnfield, LA 71483 ELEVENTH CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES SPECIAL SCHEDULE, JUNE, 1890 SURVIVING SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AND MARINES, AND WIDOWS, ETC. (Union) WINN PARISH, LOUISIANA Page 1, Supervisor's District No. 2, Enumeration District no. 72 Persons who served in the Army, navy, and Marine Corps of the United States during the war of the rebellion (who are survivors), and widows of such persons, in ______________, County of Winn , State of Louisiana , enumerated in June, 1890. W. Y. McCain Enumerator Busser Davis, House No. 60, Family No. 60, Pvt., Co. K, 7th LA Inf., enlisted 3-1-1864, discharged 4-6-1865, 1 year, 1 month, 5 days service, Post Office St. Maurice, LA. (Busser Davis was a slave who went off to war with his Confederate master and served the Confederacy as well. Busser's master was killed and Busser was captured by the Union army as contraband, and forced into Union service. Following the war, he returned to his home of St. Maurice, Winn Parish, Louisiana, on Red River. Busser got off the boat wearing his blue Union uniform and upon walking up the bank saw two black men hanging from a tree, both wearing Union uniforms. Busser quickly boarded the boat he had just departed and did not come home for about five years. On the actual census, Busser's name and information about him has one line completely through it and handwritten in the left margin is "Conf", which is assumed to represent "Confederate". I have personally interviewed several old timers from the St. Maurice area over the years who knew this man, all who spoke favorably of him, and many who knew of his service to the Confederacy and Union.) Jurome B. Engle, House No. 313, Family No. 316, Pvt., Co. D, 7th Iowa Cav., enlisted 1863, discharged 1865, 2 years service, Post Office Winnfield, LA. (This soldier was more commonly known as Jerome Ingles.) John M. Abel, House No. 324, Family No. 327, Pvt., Co. B, 1st LA Cav., enlisted 12-12-1863, discharged 12-18-1865, 2 years, 6 days service, Post Office Winnfield, LA. (This soldier served two years in the Confederacy prior to joining Union service. He was one of the most well respected men in Winn Parish, serving many years a Justice of the Peace. He presided over the inquest of the bodies of members of the West-Kimbrel Clan, executed by Winn Parish citizens in Atlanta, LA, c. 1872. He was a religious and civic leader in the Parish and a member of Eastern Star Masonic Lodge No. 151, F. & A. M., Winnfield. His descendants have served the parish in a similar fashion, his son, P. K. Abel, holding some office or other in the Winn Parish Courthouse for sixty consecutive years.) William Guise, House No. 119, Familly No. 120, Pvt., Post Office St. Maurice, discharge lost. Page 1, Supervisor's District No. 2, Enumeration District No. 73, Wards 2, 3, 4, & 7, Winn Parish, LA., John Stinson, Enumerator: William Peters, House No. 274, Family No. 281, 1st Lt., Co. C, 2nd LA Cav., enlisted 4-25-1864, discharged 7-23-1864, served 3 months, 1 day, Post Office Winnfield, LA. John W. Shumaker, House No. 577, Family No. 585, 2nd M. Sgt. Co. I, 9th Kansas Cav., enlisted 4-10-1864, discharged 11-12-1864, served 6 months, 23 days, Post Office Flat Creek, LA. (The actual census has one single line marked through this soldier's name, however, he was indeed a strong Union man according to references made in several documents of the period, observed by this writer. He also served in a parish political office during reconstruction and according to several descendants interviewed by this writer, John W. Shumaker, later a medical doctor, and a political, religious, and civic leader in his ward, he hid from the Confederate conscription officers during the early part of the war, refusing to serve the Confederate cause.) Peter F. Shumaker, House No. 578, Family No. 586, 2nd Lt., Co. I, 9th Kansas Cav., enlisted 4-10-1862, discharged 4-17-1865, service 3 years, 7 days, Post Office Flat Creek, LA. (brother of above John W. Shumaker.) Henry I. Smith, House No. 584, Family No. 592, Pvt., Co. F, 1st LA Cav., enlisted 12-10-1863, discharged July, 1865, service 2 years, 6 months, Post Office Flat Creek, LA Robert Emmons, House No. 209, Family No. 215, Pvt. (no other information) Martha Terral, House No. 243, Family No. 250, widow of U. S. Soldier Collier Maxwell, Pvt., disability hemorrhage of lungs. (no other information) (The above information copied from the 1890 U. S. Census, Special Schedule and submitted by Greggory Ellis Davies, Winnfield, LA.)