Discussion of the Household Tables

The tables (one for each household) are bascially 10 cells wide and are divided into 3 parts.

• The first part is laid out with 9 header cells (the first cell being composed of base cell one and two combined).
• The second part, the actual individual listings, are 10 data cells.
• The third part starts with a cell that says "Notes:" and a second cell, 9 base cells wide, for additional data on
  the family where I have additional material to include.
  Occasionally I have deleted this part in favor of one of the following.)
• Some of the tables have a 4th (and some even a 5th) section consisting variously of headings such as "Harley's note:" or "Doc's note:" which start a table wide cell with additional data for the particular household. When there is a considerable amount of data (more than one line) I've split it into a single cell followed by another cell (spanning 9 columns) and have broken the title in the first cell into two parts; ie. "Doc's" or "Harley's" will appear on the top line of the first cell and "note:" will appear on the bottom line of the cell. If the data cell has more than two lines I have aligned the contents of the first cell to the top.
• There is one more part that occurs in some of the households wherein Harley had quite a bit to say about them. These items are 10 column cells with the name "A BIG note from Harley:" and I have underlined that phrase. Then the information goes on as long as necessary to include it all.
• Version 2 of this database now also includes (in some households) a section called "Links" that provides links to earlier (and later on later) incarnations of the household in the listing. (See Elijah Smith b c1766 MD for an example.)

1. The first header cell identifies the census which this household's data came from.
2. The second header cell identifies the household and indicates when it was enumerated.
3. The third header cell is "Relation-Occupation."
4. The fourth header cell is "Stated age."
5. The fifth header cell is "Sex."
6. The sixth header cell is "Born-in".
7. The seventh header cell is "Birth-date."
8. The eighth header cell is "Marriage-date."
9. The ninth header cell is "Died."

1. The first column is the individual's numbered position in the household.
2. The second column is the surname with the following symbols incorporated:
   • Equals sign (=) indicates the head of the household.
   • Asterisk (*) indicates the person is NOT a son or daughter of the head of house.
   • A name in parenthesis indicates this is a woman's married surname, not a maiden surname.
   • A parenthesised surname WITH an asterisk is a woman in the household whose maiden surname hasn't been entered into the database (because _I_ don't know what it is).
   • A parenthesized surname WITH an equals sign is a female head of household whose maiden surname I haven't been able to determine.
   • All other surnames are sons or daughters of the head of the household.
3. The third column is the given name (and, where available middle name or initial).
4. The fourth column is the estimated relationship to the head of household based on the positioning in the listing (Turner didn't state the relationships) and is subject to confirmation or refutation (by YOU, the user of this census!) and the occupation where such occupation is given.
5. The fifth column is the age as given to the enumerator (by the individual he talked to).
6. The sixth column is the sex of the individual as given to (or determined by) the enumerator.
7. The seventh column is the state the individual was born in as given to the enumerator.
8. The eight column is the birth date and was not available in the regular census.
9. The ninth column is the marriage date and was not available in the regular census.
10. The tenth column is the death date and was (obviously) not available in the regular census.

The bottom of the table has been discussed above.

When Harley originally put his transcription together he flagged some of the men born in the previous (18th) century by underlining them. When he revised the transcription he dispensed with that. In keeping with his original intent I am highlighting them (and the women as well) in pale yellow thusly:

My source for the bulk of the data I transcribed was from Harley Little's original transcription as published in the Nickell-Stacy book "Selections From Morgan County History." J. Emmett Black requested and received Harley's permission for him and I to do as we pleased with the transcription. What he had in mind was obtaining the original census on microfilm and scanning it into a file which could be placed on an Internet Site. He sent me a partial copy of a revised version of Harley's transcription which was missing nearly two hundred households. When I pressed him for the other pages he stopped communicating completely, so I've carried on alone with this version.

I also obtained a copy of Rowenna Lawson's transcription of the 1850 Morgan County census (along with the 1830 and 1840 censuses) and used it as a check on Harley's accuracy (and my own). See elsewhere for the various discrepancies I found in their work. Harley included some maiden surnames (apparently from his own research) in his listing, but Rowenna did not. Their indexes reflect this. Sam Turner hadn't included them either as they weren't part of his instructions. My index now contains all 7,433 persons enumerated by Samuel Turner plus six slaves (5 of them indexed under "None provided" where a surname would be), one of whom (Chaney Caudill) I've found a surname for. I have first names for 4 more (children of Chaney's) but they were born subsequent to 1850 and will be included in a future version of this database. There is also one free mulatto in the Gillmore household (#751) named Robert who Harley listed as a Gillmore but Rowenna didn't, nor did Sam Turner. I hope to confirm his last name, and also determine names for the other 185 slaves I don't have surnames for, and first names for the ones I don't have first names for. (I have a few more first names but don't know what became of them by 1850 so must hold off on including them for the time being.) I will need a lot of help to do this! Any and all information will be most welcome!