It's Census Sunday - time to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.
The census today is the 1940 U.S. Census for my grandparents, Arthur Elisha Ford and Ethel (Wickliffe) Ford, in Quinlan, Hunt County, Texas:
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| Figure 1: The 1940 U.S. Census page for Quinlan, Hunt County, Texas, featuring the Arthur Elisha Ford household. |
The Arthur Elisha Ford family entry:
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| Figure 2: Close-up snippet of the Arthur Elisha Ford family census entry on lines 18–24. |
The extracted information from this census record is:
- Line 18: Renting for $4/month, not a farm.
- A. Elisha Ford: Head, 43, married, 4 years education, laborer, PW farm work.
- Ethel Ford: Wife, 36, seamstress for the WPA.
- Ezra Ford: Son, 16, 4 years education, new worker seeking employment.
- Dasie R. Ford: Daughter, 14, 5 years education, keeping house.
- Clay Ford (twin): Son, 5, born in Texas.
- Claton Ford (twin): Son, 5, born in Texas.
It appears that Arthur Elisha Ford gave the information for the census. I have found several errors in the census. Ethel left school in third grade to pick cotton in the fields. This information came from Ethel in an interview in 1985. Elisha and Ethel were both born in Arkansas, not Texas. This evidence comes from other census records found in Arkansas and from the interview with Ethel.
The citation for this census is:
1940 United States Census, Hunt County, Texas, population schedule, Quinlan, Justice Precinct #7, enumeration district (ED) 116-36, sheet 5A, dwelling 98, family #98, A, Eligh [Elisha] Ford household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 07 Apr 2013); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication T627, Roll 4072.
