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STIRPES SEPTEMBER 2000
BOOK NEWS ANb VIEWS
These book reviews are a guide for librarians and researchers who operate on a limited budget and
must make purchases with care. All books are actually read by the reviewers. Reviews are not based
on publicity summaries or advertising brochures. Persons who wish to have a book reviewed should
send a copy to Richard L. Hooverson, Attn: Book News and Views, 701 Lake Road, Belton, TX 76513.
Please include name, address, telephone, and ordering information (price, tax, and shipping). The
Texas State Genealogical Society sponsors Writing Awards with prizes in several categories and
books submitted for review may also be entered in that competition. All books are donated to the
Texas State Library or, if that library has a copy, to another collection that is open to the public.
TEXAS RECORDS
1870 Federal Census, Agricultural Schedule, Mortality Schedule, and Tax Rolls, Cherokee
County, Texas. Compiled by Sue Vaughan Taylor and Ira Gaylon White, assisted by Sylvia
Booth Acker and Ogreta W. Huttash. Published by the Cherokee County Genealogical
Society, PO Box 1332, Jacksonville, TX 75766-1332. 1999. Cardboard cover. 8 E x 11 inches.
Soft bound. 150 pages including a 36-page full name index.
Cherokee County is in central East Texas. The Neches River forms the western boundary and
the Angelina the southeastern boundary. The first land grant to an American dates to 1798. About
1820, the Cherokees, Delawares, Shawnees, and Kickapoos began settling north of the Old San
Antonio Road. In 1826, David G. Burnet obtained a Mexican empresario grant north of the road, and
the area to the south went to Joseph Vehlein. Rapid settlement began in 1834. The Cherokee War
of 1839 resulted in the expulsion of Indians from the area. The communities of Pine Town,
Lockranzie, Linwood, and Cook's Fort developed. The county was marked off from Nacogdoches
County and was organized on 13 July 1846, with Rusk as the county seat. Several new towns
appeared: Larissa, Gum Creek, Alto, Lone Star (originally Skin Tight), Knoxville, and Griffin. The
1850 population was 6,673, the third largest in the state. By 1860 it had grown to 12,098, which
included 3,250 slaves, two free blacks, and fourteen Hispanics. The county supported secession and
twenty-four companies from Cherokee County entered Confederate service. After the war the
Radical Republicans had little impact on Democratic control.
The 1870 census, the ninth, was the first count after the end of the Civil War and it was taken
at a time when many families had been broken. During Reconstruction thousands of people migrated
to Texas to escape the deteriorated South. Blacks were listed by name for the first time. A column
"denied vote" was added because many whites were disenfranchised, as was a column "Survivor of
CW." The 1870 population census may be less complete in the Southern states than in other parts
of the country. According to this article from the Rusk Advertiser of 1872, the situation in
Cherokee County was bad:
"In our county the returns for the present decade are worse than none at all, for it would
be better for our county to be entirely overlooked that than to have her recorded after
the fashion of a vast desert. Who is to blame for the meager returns we are unable to say.
Mr. M.D. Priest was appointed to take the census, but before he had advanced very far he23
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