"60 [age] ; Black [race] ; Blacksmith ; Georgia [place of birth]."
Source
Includes data from the 1870 Census Population Schedules, Beat 1, Madison County, Texas, Series: M593, Roll: 1597, p. 297 (stamped), p. 10 (handwritten), entry 81.
Date Original
1870
Artisan or Artist
Baily, Jeff.
Subject LC
Blacksmiths
Subject MESDA
Blacksmith
Occupation
Blacksmiths
Coverage Place
Madison County (Tex.)
Coverage Date
1870
Category
African American artisans and artists
Resource Set
Texas 1870 Census Population Schedules
Hill Texas Archive Research Notes
Marked under the field "whether deaf and dumb, blind, insane, or idiotic". The accuracy of this category is questionable, as the census taker for Madison County has marked this field almost systematically for those who were also marked under the fields "cannot read" and "cannot write."
