Separate cards exist for the Freedmen. Data provide such facts as name, race, age, sex and marital status as well as other legible remarks made by the census takers. The column showing the 1900 Dawes census card numbers also gives some 1883 and 1894 entries and indicates people who died between 1880 and 1900. The format preserves the look of the original page and allows genealogists to search the text for specific individuals and places. For easy identification, hits are highlighted on each page.
Numerous bookmarks make it easy to sift through the material.
Benge is to be commended for making this valuable resource accessible to researchers. This week we will conclude the list of burial places of Methodist ministers found on pages 187-190 of the Texas Methodist Historical Quarterly, Vol. In 1909, he married Anna Christine Patterson in Chandler, Okla., or Paris, Texas. His son, James William Estes, was born in 1856 and died in 1928.