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A Lot of Work for Two Cents

by | Mar 6, 2010 | Features & Gunfights

The U.S. Census features many of our Old West legends.
Early in June 1880, census enumerator Charles M. Cantrell came to dwelling number 14 on his list in Davidson County, Tennessee. Cantrell wrote down the names of 40-year-old Ben J. Woodson; his wife Fannie W. aged 27; and their two-year-old son Robert. Next, he wrote down Geo. D. Howard, noting that he was Woodson’s brother, and then crowding in the words “in-law.”


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