Burrell Baggett – Hiding on the 1830 Census!

I have long lamented the fact that Burrell Baggett seemed to be a professional “census dodger.”  I have often accused him of being such, joking that he must have “shot the census man when he saw him coming down the road.”

But considering the circumstances, it seems that he did pretty well, after all.  He wasn’t old enough for the 190 or 1800 census.  Then, recently, we discovered that he was, indeed, on the 1810 census in Haywood County, North Carolina.  He was in Alabama in 1820, and the census records for Alabama that year are non-existent … but we (Jack Baggett, actually) did find him on the officer’s election and commissioning sheets in Lauderdale County, Alabama.  So we have him accounted for in that year.  But 1830 has always been a problem.

Until now …