Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Six degrees of Separation: Caston & Brumfield Families Part 9

 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.

"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