The 1880 Census is one of the only census records that contains the whole Granbery Family under one Head of Household. The family starts on line 1 and goes till line 10. The unique thing about this census is that the census taker used initials for many of the family. Which could make indexing and searching harder then having the full names.
By this time the Granbery Family had moved to the Rattle and Snap plantation they had purchased from the Polks.
Joseph worked on the Rattle and Snap plot as a farmer, while his wife Susan B was a house worker trying to raise her eight young children.
All the the Granbery children, were born and raised in Tennessee. Being from a wealthy family, all the children attended school from an early age and continuing until their 20s. Nettie and Harry, the youngest of the 8 children. were the only ones not attending school at the time.
This is the last year that Joseph and William, the oldest of the Granbery family will be listed with Joseph has their head of house hold.
That would be very frustrating, to only have one census in which the entire family is listed. Even more so when their names were reduced to initials! I haven't done anything in Tennessee...do they have states censuses there? Might help your search if they did.
ReplyDeleteSo excited you get to go visit the mansion and learn more about this family!!
ReplyDeleteGreat picture of the plantation house! Is there an 1880 agricultural schedule for Joseph that would show what he was growing and producing on the farm and the value of his property?
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