The Perry County 1880 Census for ED 99 has been found! If you check the schedules at Ancestry, you’ll find Ed #98 and 100 – with no #99. Thirteen pages have now been added to the available 1880 census schedules. This doesn’t happen often, and it’s exciting when it does. Click on the illustration to view the schedules at www.sos.mo.gov/.
The following is from an article posted October 11, 2018 at infodocket.com.
Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, in collaboration with the Missouri Historical Society, today announced the discovery of 13 pages from the 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule.
Identified by the staff of the Missouri State Archives, a division of Ashcroft’s office, the pages record the households of the 99th Enumeration District in Perry County, including the name, age, marital status, occupation, level of education and more for 633 individuals then residing in the county’s Union Township.
…there was a 30-year gap where the Perry County households listed on the missing pages were not documented on an available population schedule.
Click here or on the illustration to view the 13 pages of newly discovered 1880 census schedules.
This is really interesting news! My recent article, 1880 Short Forms, noted that there were no county copies found in any Missouri counties. These 1880 schedules from Perry County, Missouri are therefore part of the originals, not copies.It also means that they were somehow missed when the originals were sent to the Census Office in Washington, DC by the middle of August 1880. They have the same format as the originals, and no copies were made of the originals, only the “Short Forms” copies – therefore these found census pages are the actual originals from Perry County, Missouri. How about that?!?