1870 Federal Census Sweetwater County, Wyoming Territory (Rock Creek Gulch: File 1 of 1) The USGenWeb Archives provide genealogical and historical data to the general public without fee or charge of any kind. It is intended that this material not be used in a commercial manner. All submissions become part of the permanent collection. Abstracted by Kathleen Lampe from public records. Edited and formatted by Maggie Stewart, June 2002. Submitted by Kathleen Lampe January 2, 2002. This Census Was Proofread by RJ Robinson . Both above notices must remain when copied or downloaded. kathleenlampe@hotmail.com ____________________________________________________________________________ This work follows all guidelines of the USGW Census Project, http://www.usgwcensus.org/. ____________________________________________________________________________ KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS: LN=Line Number HN=House Number FN=Family Number REAL VAL.=Value of Real Estate PERS VAL.=Value of Personal Estate FATHER FOREIGN BORN MOTHER FOREIGN BORN MONTH BORN=If Born within last year, Give Month MONTH MARR=If Married within last year, Give Month ATT. SCHOOL=Attended school within last year CAN'T READ=Adults who cannot read CAN'T WRITE=Adults who cannot write DEAF=Whether deaf, dumb, blind, insane, idiotic, pauper, or convict M-21yrs=Males Over 21 years of age ____________________________________________________________________________ NOTE: For more information on Sweetwater County, Wyoming, Please visit the Sweetwater County, WYGenWeb page at http://www.rootsweb.com/~wysweetw/ ____________________________________________________________________________ This is the 1870 Federal Census for Sweetwater County, Wyoming ____________________________________________________________________________ --- Census Year: 1870 State: Wyoming County: Sweet Water Post Office: Atlantic City Sheet No: 491B Reel no: M593-1748 Division: Rock Creek Gulch Page no: 1 Enumerated on: June 11, 1870 by: George W. Haws Transcribed by Kathleen Lampe and Proofread by RJ Robinson for USGenWeb, http://www.usgwcensus.org/. Copyright: 2002 =====|=============|=================================|========|=========================|============|================|===========|=======|===|=====|======|============================================= LINE | Dwell Famil | LastName FirstName | Ag S C | Occupation | RealV Pers | BirthPlace | F F Mo Mo | A C C | D | E D | SNDX | REMARKS =====|=============|=================================|========|=========================|============|================|===========|=======|===|=====|======|============================================= 1 | 1 1 | Henry James | 28 M W | Butcher | | Ohio | X X | | | X | H560 | 2 | 1 1 | Woolworth Leonard | 53 M W | Wagon Maker | | New York | | | | X | W463 | 3 | 1 1 | Kite John | 24 M W | Miner | | Michigan | X X | | | X | K300 | 4 | 1 1 | Hull Frank U | 33 M W | Miner | | New York | | | | X | H400 | =====|=============|=================================|========|=========================|============|================|===========|=======|===|=====|======|============================================= 5 | 2 | __Unoccupied__ | | | | | | | | | | Unoccupied Dwelling =====|=============|=================================|========|=========================|============|================|===========|=======|===|=====|======|============================================= 6 | 3 2 | Powers Joseph | 23 M W | Miner | 500 | New York | X X | | | X | P620 | 7 | 3 2 | Wheeling Robert | 30 M W | Miner | | Pennsylvania | X | | | X | W452 | 8 | 3 2 | Gratex William | 24 M W | Miner | | England | X X | | | X | G632 | 9 | 3 2 | Dixson George | 29 M W | Miner | | New Jersey | X | | | X | D250 | 10 | 3 2 | Dale John | 24 M W | Miner | | Indiana | X | | | X | D400 | 11 | 4 3 | Classon Timothy | 30 M W | Miner | 100 | Ohiio | X | | | X | C425 | 12 | 4 3 | Clayton Jasper | 33 M W | Miner | | Virginia | | | | X | C435 | 13 | 4 3 | Latham David H | 23 M W | Miner | | South Carolina | | | | X | L350 | 14 | 4 3 | Welson Lee | 22 M W | Miner | | Illinois | | | | X | W425 | 15 | 5 4 | Mc Kitrick Russell | 28 M W | Miner | | Ohiio | | | | X | M223 | 16 | 5 4 | Meigs Guy | 55 M W | Miner | 100 | Vermont | | | | X | M200 | 17 | 5 4 | Bruett Charles | 23 M W | Miner | | Hanover | X X | | | X | B630 | 18 | 5 4 | Cather John | 23 M W | *Miner | | Pennsylvania | | | | X | C360 | *HQ, in a circle, just above the word Miner. 19 | 5 4 | Carpenter George | 20 M W | Miner | | Michigan | | | | | C615 | 20 | 6 5 | Fry Charles | 40 M W | Miner | 300 | Kentucky | | | | X | F600 | 21 | 6 5 | Gellis Nual | 27 M W | Miner | | Scotland | X X | | | X | G420 | 22 | 6 5 | O' Neil Barney | 24 M W | Miner | | Ireland | X X | | | X | O'54 | 23 | 6 5 | Meller William | 26 M W | Miner | | Scotland | X X | | | X | M460 | 24 | 6 5 | Boyd Robert | 25 M W | Miner | | Ireland | X X | X X | | X | B300 | 25 | 7 6 | Mc Intyre Malcom | 33 M W | Miner | | Canada | X X | | | X | M253 | 26 | 7 6 | Mc Lean Hugh | 22 M W | Miner | 100 | Scotland | X X | | | X | M245 | 27 | 7 6 | Mc Crae Daniel | 24 M W | Miner | | Canada | X X | | | X | M226 | 28 | 7 6 | Burk Harry | 23 M W | Miner | | Missouri | | | | X | B620 | 29 | 8 7 | Thirot Eugene | 27 M W | Miner | | France | X X | | | X | T630 | 30 | 8 7 | Liby Antonette | 22 M W | Miner | | Canada | X X | X X | | X | L100 | 31 | 8 7 | Talbott Augustus | 22 M W | Miner | | Canada | X X | | | X | T413 | 32 | 9 8 | Fosher John | 40 M W | Miner | | Indiana | | | | X | F260 | 33 | 9 8 | Peters Charles F | 26 M W | Miner | | Massachusettes | | | | X | P362 | 34 | 9 8 | Fosher Abraham | 30 M W | Miner | | Indiana | | | | X | F260 | 35 | 9 8 | Robinson George W | 58 M W | Miner | | New York | X | | | X | R152 | =====|=============|=================================|========|=========================|============|================|===========|=======|===|=====|======|============================================= 36 | 10 | __Unoccupied__ | | | | | | | | | | Unoccupied Dwelling =====|=============|=================================|========|=========================|============|================|===========|=======|===|=====|======|============================================= 37 | 11 9 | Yates Christopher P | 44 M W | Miner | | New York | X | | | X | Y320 | 38 | 11 9 | Collister Oscar | 29 M W | Miner | | Ohio | X | | | X | C423 | 39 | 11 9 | Gottlos Abraham | 29 M W | Miner | | Pennsylvania | X | | | X | G342 | 40 | 12 10 | Kelly James L | 45 M W | Miner | | Maine | X X* | | | X | K400 | *No month of birth given-Not an infant =====|=============|=================================|========|=========================|============|================|===========|=======|===|=====|======|============================================= --- Census Year: 1870 State: Wyoming County: Sweet Water Post Office: Atlantic City Sheet No: 492A Reel no: M593-1748 Division: Rock Creek Gulch Page no: 2 Enumerated on: June 13, 1870 by: George W. Haws Transcribed by Kathleen Lampe and Proofread by RJ Robinson for USGenWeb, http://www.usgwcensus.org/. Copyright: 2002 =====|=============|=================================|========|=========================|============|================|===========|=======|===|=====|======|============================================= LINE | Dwell Famil | LastName FirstName | Ag S C | Occupation | RealV Pers | BirthPlace | F F Mo Mo | A C C | D | E D | SNDX | REMARKS =====|=============|=================================|========|=========================|============|================|===========|=======|===|=====|======|============================================= 1 | 12 10 | Mc Farland Robert | 28 M W | Laborer | | Ireland | X X | X X | | X | M216 | =====|=============|=================================|========|=========================|============|================|===========|=======|===|=====|======|============================================= 2 | 13 | __Unoccupied__ | | | | | | | | | | Unoccupied Dwelling =====|=============|=================================|========|=========================|============|================|===========|=======|===|=====|======|============================================= 3 | 14 11 | Fernell James A | 32 M W | Stock Raiser | 1000 | Missouri | | | | X | F654 | 4 | 14 11 | Fernell Roda | 32 F W | Keeping house | | Missouri | | | | | F654 | 5 | 14 11 | Fernell Minnie | 9 F W | | | Missouri | | | | | F654 | 6 | 14 11 | Fernell Nettie | 7 F W | | | Missouri | | | | | F654 | 7 | 14 11 | Fernell Josephine | 5 F W | | | Missouri | | | | | F654 | 8 | 14 11 | Fernell Frances | 3 F W | | | Missouri | | | | | F654 | 9 | 14 11 | Fernell John | 1 M W | | | Missouri | | | | | F654 | =====|=============|=================================|========|=========================|============|================|===========|=======|===|=====|======|============================================= 10 | 15 | __Unoccupied__ | | | | | | | | | | Unoccupied Dwelling =====|=============|=================================|========|=========================|============|================|===========|=======|===|=====|======|============================================= 11 | 16 12 | Masturson William A | 26 M W | Miner | | Illinois | | | | X | M236 | 12 | 17 13 | Domell George W | 30 M W | Blacksmith | | Missouri | | | | X | D540 | 13 | 17 13 | Thompson George B | 35 M W | Miner | | Maine | | | | X | T512 | =====|=============|=================================|========|=========================|============|================|===========|=======|===|=====|======|============================================= 14 | 18 | __Unoccupied__ | | | | | | | | | | Unoccupied Dwelling =====|=============|=================================|========|=========================|============|================|===========|=======|===|=====|======|============================================= 15 | 19 14 | Mc Avoy James | 28 M W | Miner | 100 | Ohio | | | | X | M210 | 16 | 19 14 | Tubey Antonette | 27 M W | Miner | | Greece | X X | X X | | | T100 | 17 | 20 15 | Borbridge John | 45 M W | Miner | 1400 | Canada | X X | | | X | B616 | 18 | 20 15 | Smith Christopher | 30 M W | Miner | | Tennessee | | | | X | S530 | 19 | 21 16 | Code John T | 34 M W | Miner | 100 300 | Georgia | | | | X | C300 | 20 | 21 16 | Collins Byron | 27 M W | Teamster | | Louisanna | | | | X | C452 | 21 | 22 17 | Gleason Edward F | 56 M W | Working in Quartz Mill | | Conneticut | | | | X | G425 | 22 | 22 17 | Hewes Edward A | 26 M W | Miner | | New York | | | | X | H200 | 23 | 22 17 | Cutler Asa E | 35 M W | Miner | 9000 | Massachuettes | | | | X | C346 | 24 | 23 18 | Diltman Augustus | 34 M W | Working in Quartz Mill | 100 | Prussia | X X | | | X | D435 | 25 | 23 18 | Diltman Ida | 26 F W | Keeping house | | Prussia | X X | | | | D435 | 26 | 24 19 | Chartier Lewis | 35 M W | Miner | | Canada | X X | | | | C636 | 27 | 24 19 | Wilkinson William | 66 M W | Miner | | Virginia | | | | X | W425 | 28 | 24 19 | Wilkinson Stephen | 34 M W | Miner | | Virginia | X | | | X | W425 | 29 | 24 19 | Shoerry Gotlieb | 35 M W | Physician | 2000 | Switzerland | X X | | | X | S600 | 30 | 24 19 | Welch Charles | 27 M W | Carpenter | | Illinois | | | | X | W420 | =====|=============|=================================|========|=========================|============|================|===========|=======|===|=====|======|============================================= 31 | 25 | __Unoccupied__ | | | | | | | | | | Unoccupied Dwelling =====|=============|=================================|========|=========================|============|================|===========|=======|===|=====|======|============================================= 32 | 26 20 | Dawson John W | 29 M W | Miner | 100 | Canada | X X | | | X | D250 | 33 | 27 21 | Frank Henry | 39 M W | Miner | 100 | Canada | X X | | | X | F652 | 34 | 27 21 | Cameron Duncan | 30 M W | Miner | | Prussia | X X | | | X | C565 | 35 | 27 21 | Olson Christian | 31 M W | Miner | | Scotland | X X | | | X | O425 | 36 | 27 21 | Beck Peter | 28 M W | Miner | | Norway | X X | | | X | B200 | 37 | 27 21 | Bell Thomas | 43 M W | Miner | 200 300 | Ireland | X X | | | X | B400 | 38 | 28 22 | Jones Alfred | 23 M W | Miner | | Pennsylvania | X X | | | X | J520 | =====|=============|=================================|========|=========================|============|================|===========|=======|===|=====|======|============================================= 40 | 29 | __Unoccupied__ | | | | | | | | | | Unoccupied Dwelling =====|=============|=================================|========|=========================|============|================|===========|=======|===|=====|======|============================================= --- Census Year: 1870 State: Wyoming County: Sweet Water Post Office: Atlantic City Sheet No: 492B Reel no: M593-1748 Division: Rock Creek Gulch Page no: 3 Enumerated on: June 14, 1870 by: George W. Haws Transcribed by Kathleen Lampe and Proofread by RJ Robinson for USGenWeb, http://www.usgwcensus.org/. Copyright: 2002 =====|=============|=================================|========|=========================|============|================|===========|=======|===|=====|======|============================================= LINE | Dwell Famil | LastName FirstName | Ag S C | Occupation | RealV Pers | BirthPlace | F F Mo Mo | A C C | D | E D | SNDX | REMARKS =====|=============|=================================|========|=========================|============|================|===========|=======|===|=====|======|============================================= 1 | 30 23 | Fallon Joseph | 28 M W | Grocer "Ret" | 500 200 | Ireland | X X | | | X | F450 | 2 | 30 23 | Hughes Robert P | 30 M W | Grocer "Ret" | 500 200 | Pennsylvania | | | | X | H220 | 3 | 31 24 | Logan George Mle* | 39 M W | Teamster | 200 200 | Nova Scotia | X X | | | X | L250 | 4 | 31 24 | Canavan John | 35 M W | Laborer | 50 | Ireland | X X | | | X | C515 | =====|=============|=================================|========|=========================|============|================|===========|=======|===|=====|======|============================================= 5 | 32 | __Unoccupied__ | | | | | | | | | | Unoccupied Dwelling =====|=============|=================================|========|=========================|============|================|===========|=======|===|=====|======|============================================= 6 | 33 25 | Thompson Leonard | 35 M W | Miner | | New Jersey | | | | X | T512 | 7 | 33 25 | Kirk Nellie | 29 F W | Housekeeping | | Ohio | | | | | K620 | 8 | 33 26 | Haas James W | 30 M W | Miner | 150 250 | New York | X X | | | X | H200 | 9 | 34 27 | Lanon Edward | 46 M W | Miner | 10000 | Ohio | X X | | | X | L550 | 10 | 35 27 | Snyder Presinell W | 34 M W | Carpenter | | Pennsylvania | | | | X | S536 | 11 | 35 27 | Cummins Cornelius | 31 M W | Teamster | | Indiana | X X | | | X | C552 | 12 | 35 27 | Herms George | 26 M W | Teamster | | Hanover | X X | X X | | X | H652 | 13 | 36 28 | Hopper Abraham | 41 M W | Blacksmith | 1500 100 | New York | | | | X | H160 | 14 | 36 28 | Hopper Zelnora | 20 M W | Keeping house | | Utah | | | | | H160 | =====|=============|=================================|========|=========================|============|================|===========|=======|===|=====|======|============================================= 15 | 37 | __Unoccupied__ | | | | | | | | | | Unoccupied Dwelling =====|=============|=================================|========|=========================|============|================|===========|=======|===|=====|======|============================================= 16 | 38 29 | Pardu James | 39 M W | Miner | | Pennsylvania | | | | X | P630 | =====|=============|=================================|========|=========================|============|================|===========|=======|===|=====|======|============================================= 17 | | | | | | | | | | | | Lines 17 - 40 left blank. =====|=============|=================================|========|=========================|============|================|===========|=======|===|=====|======|============================================= 18 | | | | | | | | | | | | Page 493A is blank. =====|=============|=================================|========|=========================|============|================|===========|=======|===|=====|======|=============================================