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Hello everyone. It’s been a long time since I’ve been on the site and even longer since I’ve tried to find information on my Blackfoot ancestress. For a lot of reasons but partly the dead ends. Does anyone have any idea where I should start. I’m looking for more information on my gr-gr-grandmother Mary Pogue of Webster County, MS. Census records show that she was probobaly born in the 1850s in either MS or VA/NC and that’s all. After that I have only oral tradition from my grandmother of her physical description, that she was a Blackfoot Indian, and an Indian slave at that and that she had a brother named Abe that played the fiddle. Gram said that she ‘went into Pogue’ ( I assume got married/took on a married name) after slavery. She was married to a Black man, so I have no idea as to what records may exist. It’s been difficult enough to locacate things about their children. If any one has a clue of how to start, I’d appreciate it.
Webster County Mississippi came into being in 1882 when the name of Sumner County was changed to Webster.
Sumner Co. was created in 1874 from Choctaw and Montgomery Counties.
The following Mary Pogue is listed as Black in 1870 and White in 1900, and would not have had to move in order to appear on the 3 counties’s census, for the reason given above.
Is this the Mary Pogue you found?
In 1870 Choctaw Co, there is a Ben Pogue, 18, and Mary Pogue, 17. Living with them is Sarah SMITH, 45, b.So.Car.
In 1880 Sumner Co, Beat 3, Ben and Mary Pogue have children:
Rose, 11; Thomas, 6; Mollie, 2.
They show up on the 1900 Webster Co. census with children:
Dock, 15; Alice, 13; Henry, 8.
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Bill
She’s the same one. I have her in 1920 and 1930,too. In 1930 she is in a different county, but still in MS.
You’ve been around here long enough to deduct the significance of two different census takers designating them two diametrically opposed ways – in Mississippi of all places?
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