Thomas
Brumfield Family
School
records have been a good source for genealogy information for me. The records I have found are actually
enrollment records. The act of racial segregation has also separated the records into colored and negro from white students. In most enrollment records , the race, name,
age and sex of the child along with the name of the parent or guardian are given. These
records have filled in the 10 year gaps in the federal census enumerations. The
information in the school records are sometimes more accurate because it was
recorded by someone who actually knew the student and parent.
With Thomas Brumfield, I have been able to
identify his daughter Mary who is 8 years old in the 1885 Pike County school record. Thomas whose birth year of 1853 derived from the 1870 census would have been 32 years old. I have included Irvine Brumfield children in the school record
which I will refer to in a latter blog post.
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"Mississippi, Enumeration of Educable Children, 1850-1892; 1908-1957," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-14208-41161-22?cc=1856425&wc=M6NC-7P8:167436801,167437202 : accessed 21 December 2014), Pike > 1885 > image 7 of 178; Government Records,
Jackson.
Name of Child
|
Age
|
Sex
|
Color
|
Parent Guardian
|
Brumfield Martha A.
|
13
|
F
|
Col
|
Irvine Brumfield
|
“ Irvine R. H. W.
|
11
|
M
|
“
|
“
|
“ Sherman S.
|
10
|
M
|
“
|
“
|
“ William W.
|
8
|
M
|
“
|
“
|
“ Louis M.
|
5
|
M
|
“
|
“
|
“ Mary
|
8
|
F
|
“
|
Tom Brumfield
|
