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1860 Census

McNAY, Robert

Valparaiso Center Township [Porter County] Indiana

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This is the last Census tarnished by counting American slaves.
•  In five months Abraham Lincoln will be elected president,
•  within this year Southern slave states will begin seceding from the Union,
•  and in exactly 10 months and 10 days, South Carolina rebels will launch the Civil War at Ft. Sumter.
Robert fought on the federal side in that ruinous conflict.

Source:   Roll M653_289; page 267; image 269;
Family History Library Film 803289;
ancestry.com image 9 of 43;
Enumeration Date:  2 Jun 1860.



The 4 McNays are living in the household of Aaron Lytle Jones, an attorney, along with other lodgers.

Robert McNay, age 28 (= born c. 1832 — but note his age is reported incorrectly here, and he was probably 31),
a tailor born in Ohio, with:

wife Martha (Collins) McNay, age 23 (= born c. 1837), born in Indiana, and their two sons, both also born in Indiana:

Charles McNay, age 7 (= born c. 1853), and

James McNay, age 5 (= born c. 1855).