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<DIV>I wanted to share my Census Headache and the interesting twist.</DIV>
<DIV>I searched for a very long time for my James Preston Johnson in the 1880
census in the household of his father. After a while we had reason to believe
his father was Shadrick Johnson. We had an old photograph also that had Doc
Johnson as the name of the man in the photograph. I searched and searched for
James P. Johnson and could find no trace of him anywhere. I finally started
searching the indexes for Shadrick Johnson and found one that was the right age
and was even listed as a physician, but he was alone with no other Johnson's in
the household. I kept going back to this Shadrick Johnson as I just felt he was
the right person but I couldn't figure out where his family was. Then I took a
look at the census image and a light bulb went on. In the household was his wife
and children but with a different surname. Go figure this one out. I will paste
the 1870 and 1880 census extraction here. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>** 1870 Census, Barry County Missouri, Roaring River, Page #4, Ancestry
Image 4 of 17, <BR>Johnson, Shade View Image Online
<BR> Birthplace: Kentucky State: Missouri
<BR> Age: 25 County: Barry <BR>
Gender: Male Township: Roaring River <BR>
Race: White Post Office: Cassville <BR>
Year: 1870 Roll: M593_757 <BR> Page:
717 Image: 143 <BR>Johnson, Shade, Age 25, White Male, School
Teacher, b. Kentucky<BR>Johnson, Mary, Age 25, White Female, b.
Illinois<BR>Johnson, James P., Age 1, White Male, b. Missouri</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>** 1880 Census, Eureka Springs, Carroll County, Arkansas, District 226,
Ancestry Image 22 of 24, Page 191B, Household 131, family 262<BR>Dronville
TORBETT Self M Male W Age
31 TN Provisian Store VA
TN <BR> Sophia TORBETT Wife M
Female W Age 26 AR Keeping
House KY TN <BR> George W. SMITH
Other M Male W Age
26 MO Barber MO TN
<BR> William CAMPBELL Other S
Male W Age 27 TN
Barber SC TN <BR> Shadrick
JOHNSON Other S Male
W Age 36 KY Physicion
TN KY <BR>John C. EARL1 Self
M Male W 29 NC
Attrney At Law NC NC <BR> Mary
EARL Wife M Female W
36 IL Keeping House TN KY
<BR> James P. EARL Son S
Male W 11 MO
KY KY <BR> Sarah EARL Dau
S Female W 7
MO KY KY <BR> Edward E.
EARL Son S Male W
3 KS KY KY
<BR>****** I believe Mary Earl, James P. Earl, Sarah Earl, and Edward Earl are
really the family of Shadrick Johnson, and that there was a mistake made on the
census. Mary, James P. and Sarah all match with Shadrick's
family.</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>