In a 1910 Census, I see a "7" under the column for surviving veteran, can someone help me find out what that means?

Question

John E Cole / 1857 Kentucky / November 27, 1916 Sherman, Grayson County, Texas / Burial Sherman, Texas November 29, 1916 / He was living in Grayson County, Texas in 1910 (according the Federal Census). I've had a roadblock on this person for a long and finally have made a breakthrough.

Can someone help me to find the coding definitions behind the 1910 Census Columns (especially the one for Veteran).

Comments

They're occupation codes, discussed here.

Steve Morse's web page has them for the 1920-1950 censuses. He links to a zip file with the 1910 codes at http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/41033901.zip

(Copy and paste the URL to download the zip file.)

Volume 2 p.226 lists 9-7-9-8 as 'shoemaker (not in factory)'--an interesting code for 'shoe repairer'!

Answer 1

Do you have a link to the census?

Answer 2

From the National Archives (archives.gov):

Military Service

• Service in Union or Confederate Army or Navy
   
  • The 1910 census (column 30) indicates whether the person was a "survivor of the Union or Confederate Army or Navy." The answers are "UA" for Union Army, "UN" for Union Navy, "CA" for Confederate Army, and "CN" for Confederate Navy. These clues lead to military service and pension records; see Civil War Records and Confederate Pension Records for more information.
     
  • A word of caution: On the 1910 census, columns 30-32 are often "overwritten" with numbers like 2-1-0-0 or 6-9-0-0. These numbers are not the answers for columns 30-32, but were data summaries used by Census Bureau tabulators in Washington, DC, to compile statistical data.
     

Comments

Thank you Lauren for clarifying this.  I found that 1910 census page on FS. Also, a page of instructions for the enumerators and is states just as you have in your post. that they are to enter the abr. for the persons military vet. status or leave blank. So those numbers in the last four columns  essentially mean nothing of value to our research.

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You're welcome!  :-)

Answer 3

I, too, found a "7" in the veteran column. There were no letters, at all. On Ancestry.com, when I hovered over the "7," it read "survivor of Confederate or Union, Army or Navy." Unfortunately, it looks like the person this was for, didn't immigrate to the US, until 1870. I haven't found any other code explanations, yet. Good luck!