It's Treasure Chest Thursday - time to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.
The treasure today is the 1870 United States Census record for my Smith great-great-grandparents and their family in Benton township, Taylor County, Iowa:
The Devier Smith entry is:
The extracted information for the family, with an enumeration date of 9 August 1870, is:
* Devier Smith - age 30, male, white, a farmer, real property worth 10,000, personal property worth $800, born New York, a male citizen of the U.S. aged over 21.
* Abbie Smith - age 26, female, white, keeping house, born New York, father of foreign birth.
* Della Smith - age 8, female, white, at Home, born Wisconsin, attended school within the year.
* David Smith - age 6, male, white, at Home, born Wisconsin, attended school within the year.
* Mary Smith - age 4, female, white, at Home, born Wisconsin.
The source citation for this census record is:
1870 United States Federal Census, Taylor County, Iowa, Population Schedule, Benton township: Page 13, dwelling #207, family #207, Devier Smith household;
digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com); citing National Archives
Microfilm Series M593, Roll 421.
I don't see any errors in this enumeration for the Devier Smith family. I'm impressed that Devier has a farm worth a lot of money, and I wonder if he owned it outright or if he had a mortgage to pay. A search of land records in Taylor county may reveal more.
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