Did Your Appalachian Last Name Appear in the 1850 Mountain Census — Here Is How to Find Out Tonight
In 1850, a government enumerator rode into every mountain hollow in the southern Appalachian highlands and wrote down every name he found. That document is the first federal census to record every free person by name — not just the head of household. For the Scots-Irish families who had been in the eastern Kentucky and southwestern Virginia hollows for three and four generations, for the German families who had come down from Pennsylvania and become Appalachian over two generations, and for the families of mixed Cherokee and European ancestry whose bloodlines the census often recorded as white but whose DNA tells a different story — that 1850 document is the starting point.This video covers eight surnames from the 1850 mountain census. Blevins, Lee County Virginia, Welsh in origin, in the Powell River hollows before the county was organized. Sexton, Letcher County Kentucky, in the Old Regular Baptist church rolls as well as the census. Wooten, Burke County North Carolina, adjacent to the Eastern Band Cherokee community whose Indian schedule is a separate 1850 document most families have never searched. Helton, Ashe County North Carolina, German Lutheran origin. Frazier, Haywood County North Carolina, with Cherokee ancestry that the census did not record but the Guion Miller rolls at archives.gov and modern DNA testing does. Caudill, Letcher County Kentucky, French Huguenot origin, in the same hollows Harry Caudill would write about in Night Comes to the Cumberlands in 1963. Stamper, Floyd County Kentucky, in the most isolated communities of the eastern Kentucky interior. Profitt, Floyd County Virginia, French Huguenot origin, the refugee history worn away by two generations of mountain life.The census is free at familysearch.org. The North Carolina records are at archives.ncdcr.gov. The Kentucky records are at kdla.ky.gov. The Virginia records are at lva.virginia.gov. And the Cherokee records are at archives.gov.Your name was written down in 1850. The record has been waiting ever since. 1850 census Appalachian, Appalachian genealogy, mountain surnames 1850, Blevins Virginia, Sexton Kentucky, Caudill Kentucky, Frazier North Carolina, Cherokee ancestry Appalachia, Scots-Irish genealogy, German Appalachian settlers, Old Regular Baptist records, eastern Kentucky genealogy, Lee County Virginia history, Letcher County Kentucky, Burke County North Carolina, Floyd County Kentucky, Haywood County North Carolina, Appalachian ancestry, family history Appalachia, Night Comes to the Cumberlands #AppalachianGenealogy #1850Census #AppalachianSurnames #appalachianancestry #caudill #Blevins #sexton #cherokeeancestry #scotsirish #EasternKentucky #westvirginia #northcarolina #OldRegularBaptist #familyhistory #hiddenancestry
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