{"id":10022,"date":"2022-05-04T16:38:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T22:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casbon.one-name.blog\/wp\/?p=10022"},"modified":"2022-05-04T16:38:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T22:38:39","slug":"lawrence-l-casbon-in-the-1950-u-s-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casbon.one-name.blog\/wp\/lawrence-l-casbon-in-the-1950-u-s-census\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence L. Casbon in the 1950 U.S. Census"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With this post, I will begin my review of Casbon family members in the 1950 United States Census. As I mentioned in my previous post, detailed images of the 1950 census were made available to the public on 1 April 2022. They are available on several genealogy websites as well as a dedicated page at the National Archives<\/a>. At this point, my review will only cover the descendants of Thomas (1803\u20131888) and James (~1813\u20131884) Casbon, the two brothers who emigrated from England to America separately and settled in Porter County, Indiana. There is a Casbon family with Creole roots<\/a> based in Louisiana. I do not have enough information about them to locate them in the 1950 census at this time but may do so at a later date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ll begin with Lawrence Leslie Casbon, my great-grandfather. He is a good starting point because he was the oldest living Casbon when the census was taken in April 1950. He was the oldest son of Sylvester Casbon (1837\u20131927) and was born 23 March 1865 in Boone Township, Porter County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the census entry for Lawrence and his wife, Kate (Marquart). I\u2019ve cut and pasted so that you can see the top of the census form with the column headings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Entry for Lawrence L Casbon, United States Census, 1950, Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana; enumeration district 64-5, sheet 14, lines 29\u201330; U.S. National Archives (Click on image to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Here is a summary of the information for Lawrence and Kate (reading from left to right)<\/p>\n\n\n\n