A very interesting find
Apr 29th, 2008 by Ruth Stephens
While searching the 1860 Federal Census for Lauderdale County, Mississippi looking for Susan Martin, I found a 2nd enumeration for Dr John F Kennedy! I had previously found him listed with his brother, Dr Sidney P Kennedy and his family, living in Beat No 2 in Lauderdale County. In the second mention, also in Beat 2, he is listed alone. I’m thinking the first was his medical practice location:
the second his private residence:
Anyway, I have finished with Beat 1 & Beat 2, and am on page 11 of Beat 3.
I have never heard of a Beat - it is like a city Ward, I’m assuming?
Isn’t it funny how some ancestors are so easy to find in the census, and some seem to have been down in the cellar, or perhaps orbiting the earth on a rocketship, when the census enumerators came to call.