Cedar
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|  Subject: '1835 Sabine District, Texas: Census'  Sat 22 Mar 2008, 12:11 am | |
| In her Introduction to this work, Mrs. Helen Gomer Schluter extended to the reader that hers was a secondary copy, drawn from the previous transcriptions of Mr. R. B. Blake .... housed in collection both at Stephen F. Austin State University, in Nacogdoches (Volume 85, pages 80 - 180), and at "the original Nacogdoches Archives, Austin, Texas."
Mrs. Schluter provided "a few maiden names" of which she was aware, in her own transcription, and also took some liberties in "numbering each household."
She continued: "This 1835 census is said to be the first census of Texas." Her copy provided "the names in the household, age, religion and occupation." In addition, " ... the names of the servants in the household ... and relationships such as wife, daughter, son and marital status are also given."
At the time of publication of this slender yet generous volume (1983), Mrs. Helen Gomer Schluter resided in Fort Worth.
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves |
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