The majority of people in Weakley County had the Profession/Trade
of Keeps House for Women, Farmer
for men, and Domestic Servant for both sexes. Many men listed as
Farmers also had other jobs and professions...but counted as farmers first.
District 7, the largest populated District and the heart of the County had the following: 7 Blacksmiths
Professions found in other Districts:
and More....... Twins.....When I saw two children listed together with the same age I put Twin in the Profession/Trade column with ? They look like twins but the age may have been entered incorrect or they were related but not siblings. Babies with the same age and month of birth surely were twins. States....TN, VA, SC, NC, and KY are abreviated. The rest are mostly written out because there were very few of them. Keeps House...Some of the enumerators wrote "Keeps House"and others wrote "Keeping house", I used Keeps House on all pages --that is of course, except for a few errors like "eeps House". Out of respect for the many hundreds of women doing all that work day after day, I wrote out Keeps House rather than abreviating with KH. Ususally it was the wife who kept house but on occasion it was a daughter. House Keeper..she kept house for someone as an employee.
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