1825 Clinton County Illinois Census

This census gives a full list of the heads of families residing in the county in 1825. The commissioner of census, William White, had in a manner anticipated the political subdivision of the county into precincts, or else retained the precinct names of the former organization. Source of this census is the 1881 History of Marion and Clinton Counties, published in 1881, pages 78 and 79, and includes some remarks of happenings to the people after the 1825 census was taken up until the history book was written. Also, see footnotes to this schedule.

Head of Household	Precinct	Remarks	Family #
WHITE, Daniel	Sugar Creek	Father of the census commissioner. Died 35 years later in 1860.	1
WHITE, William	Sugar Creek	County commissioner of census. Note: Not listed on census portion, but added under Sugar Creek to make number of families come out correctly.	2
WHITE, Daniel, Jr.	Sugar Creek	Younger son of Daniel, member of the bar at Carlyle in 1881.	3
WHITE, A. H.	Sugar Creek	Younger son of Daniel, member of the bar at Carlyle in 1881.	4
ROW, John	Sugar Creek	One of the early justices of the peace, a man of remarkable intellect, and a most successful farmer.	5
HARRELL, Theophilus	Sugar Creek	Captain of a militia company	6
CHAFFIN, James	Sugar Creek	-----	7
BEATEY, John	Sugar Creek	-----	8
OUTHOUSE, James	Sugar Creek	Member of legislature	9
TRAYLOR, John	Sugar Creek	-----	10
OUTHOUSE, Peter	Sugar Creek	Father of James. Revolutionary soldier, private, Maryland line - pensioned August 13, 1828.	11
WOOD, Richard	Sugar Creek	-----	12
ORTEN, James	Sugar Creek	-----	13
ORTEN, Wm. R.	Sugar Creek	-----	14
ORTEN, John M.	Sugar Creek	-----	15
TRAYLOR, Archibald	Sugar Creek	-----	16
MCCRACKEN, James	Sugar Creek	First constable, very dignified, his prisoners were all arrested "in the name of the Commonwealth of Illinois". Owned a cotton gin.	17
COX, Charles	Sugar Creek	-----	18
JOHNSON, William, Jr.	Sugar Creek	Justice of the peace for many years, also county commissioner.	19
BRAKE, John	Sugar Creek	-----	20
JOHNSON, Hugh	Sugar Creek	Owned a cotton gin.	21
CHAFFIN, Ellis	Sugar Creek	Private, South Carolina militia during war of independence, pensioned March 4, 1831.	22
WALKER, Achilles	Sugar Creek	-----	23
OUTHOUSE, Meredith	Sugar Creek	-----	24
BETTS, John	Sugar Creek	-----	25
ADAIR, Manuel	Sugar Creek	-----	26
ADAIR, John	Sugar Creek	-----	27
ROW, Hezekiah	Sugar Creek	-----	28
STARNATOR, Polly	Sugar Creek	Daughter of E. CHAFFIN and an exemplary mother, bringing up a family of eight children to respectability.	29
BROWDER, Jonathan	Sugar Creek	A land shark.	30
DUNCAN, William	Sugar Creek	-----	31
WATKINS, B.	Sugar Creek	Justice of the peace, county commissioner and county assessor.	32
MORGAN, John	Sugar Creek	Kept a stage station on the road from Carlyle to Alton, and was post-master, also treasurer of school funds for many years.	33
RAMSEY, John	Sugar Creek	Came from North Carolina to Clinton county in 1818; his father James R. had settled in Madison county in 1816.	34
RAMSEY, John H.	Sugar Creek	-----	35
SCOTT, John	Sugar Creek	Kept hotel in Carlyle	36
JOHNSON, William, Sr.	Sugar Creek	Methodist minister	37
NICHOLS, Pearson	Sugar Creek	-----	38
LEWIS, William	Sugar Creek	Laid out the town of Trenton.	39
STITS, Samuel	Sugar Creek	-----	40
SIMONS, Daniel	Sugar Creek	-----	41
JOHNSON, John	Sugar Creek	-----	42
OUTHOUSE, Turner	Sugar Creek	-----	43
OUTHOUSE, John	Sugar Creek	-----	44
TATMOND, Nathan	Sugar Creek	-----	45
NELSON, Charles	Sugar Creek	-----	46
MIDDLETON, William	Sugar Creek	-----	47
SILKWOOD, Solomon	Sugar Creek	Owned a horse grist mill.	48
YARBROUGH, Absalom	Shoal Creek	Kept a ferry to cross the Okaw river, near mouth of Shoal Creek.	49
AMMONS, Godfrey	Shoal Creek	Justice of the peace, and first settler in Santa Fe Bottom	50
NEELEY, Henry	Shoal Creek	-----	51
USHER, Cayton	Shoal Creek	-----	52
CREEL, John	Shoal Creek	-----	53
CREEL, Berryman	Shoal Creek	Representative in legislature.	54
MORTON, Joseph	Shoal Creek	In 1881, living in Mulberry Grove, Bond County, Illinois.	55
WINTERS, John	Shoal Creek	Tallest man in the county, measuring seven feet.	56
CARRIGAN, James	Shoal Creek	-----	57
BANKSON, Andrew	Shoal Creek	Colonel in the militia, representative in legislature, and as member of the committee to locate the state capital, voted against Carlyle, thus securing the location to Vandalia.	58
STREET, William	Shoal Creek	-----	59
HOWARD, David G.	Shoal Creek	-----	60
BAIL, Elijah	Shoal Creek	Famous millwright and carpenter, and builder of the water mills on Shoal creek	61
HOWARD, James	Shoal Creek	-----	62
LINCOLN, Elijah	Shoal Creek	-----	63
BLACKMOND, William	Shoal Creek	-----	64
BARBER, Matthew	Shoal Creek	-----	65
RECAR, James	Shoal Creek	-----	66
CURTIS, Henry	Shoal Creek	Colored freeman, from Tennessee, bought the toll-bridge across Shoal creek, and kept tavern.	67
MITCHELL, Alexander	Shoal Creek	-----	68
SWEARINGEN, Daniel S.	Shoal Creek	Possessed a saw and grist mill on Shoal Creek, driven by water power.	69
SMITH, John	Shoal Creek	-----	70
WATTS, William	Shoal Creek	-----	71
BENNETT, George	Shoal Creek	-----	72
BAY, Thomas	Shoal Creek	The only drunkard in the county at his day.	73
MITCHELL, James	Shoal Creek	-----	74
BROOK, Thomas	Shoal Creek	-----	75
MAYHUGH, Daniel	Shoal Creek	-----	76
GRIFFITH, Daniel	Shoal Creek	-----	77
GREGORY, John	Shoal Creek	-----	78
CANNADY, Archibald	Shoal Creek	-----	79
LENARD, John	Shoal Creek	-----	80
TURNER, Stephen	Shoal Creek	Ran a distillery near the county line, north.	81
BRISBON, John	Shoal Creek	-----	82
KING, John	Shoal Creek	Revolutionary soldier, private, South Carolina continentals, pensioned March 4, 1831.	83
MAY, Hugh	Shoal Creek	-----	84
HILL, Burril	Shoal Creek	-----	85
LOCEY, Brizle	Gumridge	-----	86
STEGHENS, Charles	Gumridge	-----	87
SHORT, Bennett	Gumridge	-----	88
MADDUX, Elizabeth	Gumridge	-----	89
CARTER, John	Gumridge	-----	90
MADDUX, Zachariah	Gumridge	-----	91
WALKER, William	Gumridge	-----	92
MADDUX, Alexander	Gumridge	-----	93
BUCK, James	Gumridge	-----	94
MCCLURE, Stephen	Gumridge	-----	95
SHARP, Jonathan	Gumridge	County treasurer for many years.	96
NICHOLS, John	Gumridge	-----	97
BROWN, John	Gumridge	-----	98
MOORE, John	Gumridge	-----	99
SMITH, Benjamin	Gumridge	-----	100
SUTTLES, Jesse	Beaver Creek	-----	101
EADS, Thomas	Beaver Creek	-----	102
DUNCAN, Robert	Beaver Creek	-----	103
AMMONS, John	Beaver Creek	-----	104
RAY, Abram	Beaver Creek	-----	105
WATKINS, Sam.	Beaver Creek	-----	106
COOK, John	Beaver Creek	-----	107
ANDERSON, Ignatius	Beaver Creek	-----	108
HAYNON, Jesse	Beaver Creek	-----	109
DUNN, William	Beaver Creek	-----	110
HOOPER, Thomas	Beaver Creek	-----	111
MOORE, Peggy	Beaver Creek	-----	112
ANDERSON, William	Beaver Creek	-----	113
DUNN, Jesse	Beaver Creek	-----	114
RUSSELL, George	Carlyle	Had a stone pottery	115
ABBOTT, John	Carlyle	-----	116
SLADE, Charles	Carlyle	An Englishman by birth, member of congress from his district in 1833, died at Vincennes in 1834, on his way home from Washington city. Slade was the only slaveholder in the county in 1825, had five slaves.	117
FITCH, Elizabeth	Carlyle	-----	118
WILTON, Harry	Carlyle	First sheriff of Washington county, later marshal of the State of Illinois and county officer.	119
WILTON, Thomas	Carlyle	-----	120
WEBSTER, Francis	Carlyle	Assessor and treasurer for four successive terms.	121
SLADE, Thomas	Carlyle	-----	122
DIXON, George	Carlyle	-----	123
HOOD, Thomas	Carlyle	-----	124
GAZLEY, Thomas J.	Carlyle	-----	125
TAMBERLYN, Thomas	Carlyle	-----	126
SADDLER, Samuel	Carlyle	-----	127
SUBLETT, William	Carlyle	Owned a horse-mill, left the county and settled at Lebanon, Illinois	128
KAIN, John	Carlyle	-----	129
FAIRFIELD, Joseph	Carlyle	-----	130
BURNSIDES, James	Okaw	-----	131
BURNSIDES, John	Okaw	-----	132
MCNEAL, Abram	Okaw	-----	133
BURNSIDES, James, Jr.	Okaw	-----	134
FINLEY, Samuel	Okaw	-----	135
HOLT, Marmom	Okaw	-----	136
JONES, James	Okaw	-----	137
MORRIS, Zacharias	Okaw	-----	138
BEAD, Robert	Okaw	-----	139
BARNES, Calvin	Okaw	Has a castor oil factory on the Okaw.	140
PIERCE, Aaron	Okaw	-----	141
HALL, John	Crooked Creek	-----	142
HAGSTON, Isaac	Crooked Creek	-----	143
MADDUX, Gillis	Crooked Creek	-----	144
WADSWORTH, John	Crooked Creek	-----	145
DANEEL, William	Crooked Creek	-----	146
COLE, Richard	Crooked Creek	-----	147
GILMORE, John	Crooked Creek	-----	148
MADDUX, Wesley	Crooked Creek	-----	149
CARRIGAN, John	Crooked Creek	First sheriff of Clinton county, and subsequently a member of the legislature.	150
SHORT, Thomas	Crooked Creek	-----	151
BERRY, John	Crooked Creek	-----	152
WATTS, Haden	Crooked Creek	-----	153
BRADFORD, John	Crooked Creek	-----	154
MCEVER, Robert	Crooked Creek	-----	155
ROWPER, David	Crooked Creek	-----	156
JOHN, John	Crooked Creek	-----	157
MADDUX, Oliver	Crooked Creek	-----	158
GIBSON, William	Crooked Creek	-----	159
COCHRAN, James	Crooked Creek	-----	160
PADON, John	Crooked Creek	In 1881, resident of Madison county, Illinois.	161
DARNEEL, Isaac	Crooked Creek	-----	162
OUTHOUSE, Joseph	Crooked Creek	-----	163
PIERCE, Elijah	Crooked Creek	-----	164
HUEY, John	Crooked Creek	Owner of a horse-mill on Crooked Creek.	165
COLE, Edward	Crooked Creek	-----	166
TAYLOR, John A.	Crooked Creek	-----	167
MCEVER, Samuel	Crooked Creek	-----	168
HUEY, Joseph	Crooked Creek	-----	169
FINCH, John E.	Crooked Creek	-----	170
MADDUX, James	Crooked Creek	-----	171
ALLEN, Benjamin	Crooked Creek	-----	172
COLE, Peter	Crooked Creek	-----	173
WADSWORTH, Thomas	Crooked Creek	County commissioner	174
DOW, David D.	Crooked Creek	-----	175
MADDUX, Sarah	Crooked Creek	-----	176
WITTON, Mary	Crooked Creek	-----	177
ATTON, James	East Fork	-----	178
CARTER, John	East Fork	-----	179
MILES, Bird A.	East Fork	-----	180
PHELPS, Jacob	East Fork	-----	181
MCKINNEY, Jeremiah	East Fork	-----	182
MCKINNEY, Joseph	East Fork	-----	183
MCKINNEY, Eli	East Fork	-----	184

There were 184 families residing in the county, numbering 1,106 souls in all; 220 of whom were white adults, voters. The colored population consisted of 19 free negroes and five slaves, owned by Charles Slade of Carlyle.

The principal if not the only, pursuit of the population, was agriculture. These 184 families owned about 20,000 acres of land, averaging fully 100 acres per family.

A similar report was made in 1830 by Commissioner Benjamin Bond. The population had increased over one hundred per cent. In those five years, it numbered now 2,375, among whom were 394 voters, and 391 men subject to military duty (militia men). The colored population had quadrupled (95), all free, however. The manufactures had increased by a carding machine and a "hattershop" at Carlyle. Commissioner James J. Justice reports in 1835 a population of 2,648, 84 of whom were free colored people. The increase in population, scarcely 12 per cent, was small in comparison with that of the previous five years. The last-mentioned report contains a few German names, the first ones met in this county.

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