History of Milam County: the largest slaveholders of 1860 (A. M. Massingale and Jasper McKinney)
1956 · Lelia McAnally Batte, History of Milam County, Texas (San Antonio: Naylor Co., 1956)
Named here: Alfred Madison Massengale, Jasper P McKinney
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Transcription
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Milam County was never a heavy slaveholding area, but there were slaves. […] The 1850 census showed that there were 436 slaves in the county. These were owned by 115 slaveholders. […] By the time the 1860 census was taken the number of slaves had risen to 1,542. These were then owned by 265 slaveholders, of which the largest were John G. Cox with sixty-eight; A. M. Massingale, forty-two; William Anderson, thirty-six; John Beal, thirty-two; Jasper McKinney, twenty-six; and A. H. Allen, twenty-five.
The footnotes on these pages cite the 1850 and 1860 census schedules for Milam County and, for the 1860 total, Kennedy, Preliminary Report of the Eighth Census, 1860, p. 284.
Citation: Lelia McAnally Batte, History of Milam County, Texas (San Antonio: Naylor Co., 1956), 56–58 (index: "Massingale, A. M., 58"; "McKinney, Jasper, 58"); Internet Archive item historyofmilamco00batt_0 (Allen County Public Library), scan n75, https://archive.org/details/historyofmilamco00batt_0/page/n75/mode/1up?q=McKinney.
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| Person | Fact | Document says | Tree says | Assessment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alfred Madison Massengale | Slaveholding, 1860 | "A. M. Massingale," forty-two slaves, Milam County (second-largest holder in the county) | Lived at Jones Prairie, Milam; died there 1874 | new |
| Jasper P McKinney | Slaveholding, 1860 | Twenty-six slaves, Milam County | Lived in Milam from 1852; died 1880 | new |