Looking for Info on four "stepsons" listed with Sarah "Crumton" on 1880 census - Paulding County, GA

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I believe this widow to be the wife of Thomas Crumpton (son of Jehu Crumpton II - abt 1767-1822).  I cannot find information on what are listed as "stepsons" on the 1880 census, sourced at:

Source Citation: Year: 1880; Census Place: Pumpkin Vine, Paulding, Georgia; Roll: 160; Family History Film: 1254160; Page: 423A; Enumeration District: 158; Image: 0850.

If anyone has any information or advice, I'd be much obliged!

WikiTree profile: Thomas Crumpton
in Genealogy Help by Ralph Crumpton G2G Rookie (230 points)

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First lets see what soures can be added:

Census 1840, Thos Crumton on Line 13 of this image: https://archive.org/stream/populationsc18400048unit#page/n213/mode/1up

Census 1850, Crumpton family starts on Line 12 of this image: https://archive.org/stream/7thcensus0063unix#page/n451/mode/1up Note: census lists a son Thomas that has not been added yet.

Census 1860, Crumpton family, without Thomas, starts at line 24 of this image: https://archive.org/stream/populationschedu133unit#page/n432/mode/1up

Presumably living in Paulding in 1870 given the 1871 marriage of an Amanda Crumpton to John Cohron: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-25515-22897-37?cc=1927197

Census 1870 I might guess line 38 of this image: https://archive.org/stream/populationschedu0168unit#page/n822/mode/1up

Census 1880, starting line 36 that you already mentioned: https://archive.org/stream/10thcensus0160unit#page/n852/mode/1up * Notice also the Crumpton family starting line 29.

by Rob Ton G2G6 Pilot (292k points)

I suspect that, if the 1880 Census record is of the correct family, then 'stepson' is probably an enumerator error. I could see them being grandsons, or the step children of Amanda if she married someone at least 8 or 10 years older than herself.

I am somewhat confident Sarah did not remarry as I can account for Sarah Crumpton appearing in the tax digest for Paulding Co. from 1866 through to 1890. She is variously listed as Crumpton, Crompton, and Compton, but we can associate the different surnames by the lots she owns in District 2, Section 3, of Pumpkinvine (also sometimes listed as Umphrey's, or listed by the post offices Nebo, Rollins, or Dallas) Particularly her long connection to lots 646, 651, 652, 717.


FYI: This website {Pay Membership Required to view files) indicates that they have a digital image of a will for "Crumpton, Thomas, deceased" and a digital image of the estate, along with other resources. Perhaps they have other records of value.

The estate is located here.

I am not able to read it very well.  Thanks much for your input!

Regarding Amanda: as far as I know she was married twice - once to John Cohran (in 1871), who was right around Amanda's age, and finally to Miles Landmon/Landman (in 1888).  I am unable to find death information on either husband, but I am fairly confident that John Cohran died prior to 1882 (because YDNA testing has almost certainly excluded him as father to my ggrandfather, Amanda's son).

It appears that the first and last page are the "Sale Bill" recording who puchased what items from the estate, and for what amount. The middle pages are the actual inventory and appraisal of the value of the estate.

Obviously the land, lots 646, 657, 717, and 719 of D[istrict] 2 - S[ection] 3 and 128-3-3 are the most valuable items, followed by some of the livestock - a jack (donkey), a jersey (dairy cow), a sorrel mare, a bay mare, and if I am reading correctly 1 yoke oxen, (which I infer means trained oxen, while the entry preceding it for 2 oxes is for the ones that are still being trained, i.e. working steers). The rest of the list appears to be tack, farming equipment, tools, furniture, clothes, household effects, and a limited amount of saleable goods (bushels of oats, bails of cotton, and *I believe* it says 1000lbs of bacon). The list ends with some financial instruments, an order (check), a note (promissory note), and one other that I can't quite make out. The list is followed by all the usual legal-ese declaring that everything is fair and true to the best of everyone's knowledge and is signed by the appraisers. and then by William Adair who I think, by the initials after his name is the local Justice of the Peace.

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