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Wilkes County, Georgia 1840 U.S. Census - Free Colored Persons Transcription by Keith Giddeon. From NARA Microfilm Series M704 Roll 53. NOTE: Apparently, there were no free persons of color living in their own house in 1840 Wilkes County. All heads of household listed below are white.       Free Colored Males Free Colored Females Dist. Page Head of Household 0  - 9 10 - 23 24 - 35 36 - 54 55 - 99 100 - up 0  - 9 10 - 23 24 - 35 36 - 54 55 - 99 100 - up 164 248 Gilbert, Richard . . . . 1 . . . . . 1 . 164 248 Plumb, David . . . . . . . . . 1 . . 164 248 Corbett, Eleanor . . . . 1 . . . . . . . 164 249 Pope, John H. . . . . 1 . . . . . . . 164 249 Lobdell, Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . . 1 . 176 251 Thompson, John D. 1 . . . . . . 1 . . 1 . 167 254 Bradford, Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . . 1 . 167 254 Pope, Wilie H. . . . 1 . . . . . . . . 181 255 Carter, Reuben . . 1 . . . . . . . . . 181 255 Wilkinson, John C. . . 1 . . . . . . . . . 181 256 Stokes, Armstead T. . . . . . .

Source: http://giddeon.com/wilkes/newspapers/story0009.shtml Wilkes County, Georgia Newspaper Accounts WEALTHY VIRGINIAN'S DEMISE. Dr. Francis T. Willis, of Richmond, Falls Victim to Pneumonia. Special to the Post. Richmond, Va., Jan. 15.—Dr. Francis T. WILLIS, one of the most wealthy men in Richmond, died late to-night after an illness of only a few days. He was eighty-two years old and had pneumonia. Dr. WILLIS was a native of Washington, Ga., where he lived until 1868 when he came to Richmond. He left a library in that city dedicated to his daughter, Mary WILLIS JONES, whose husband, Capt. Pembroke JONES, was in the Confederate Navy. Dr. WILLIS was a Union man, but his only son was a Confederate Brigadier, and having been killed in battle, was buried here. Deceased was formerly President of what is now the Central Railroad of Georgia. Washington, District of Columbia, The Washington Post, 16 January 1898, p. 1.

Wilkes County, Georgia Newspaper Accounts No Place Like Dixie. —The following paragraph, which we copy from the Washington (D.C.) Express, of Saturday last, is expressive of the feelings of thousands of colored persons who have been left dependent upon the cold charities of would-be philanthropists: A Georgia Slave Returns to Her Master. Some weeks ago an old negro woman about sixty years of age, named Henrietta McCLINTOCK, arrived here under the impression that she was reaching Little Washington, Georgia. On her arrival she met officer E. McHENRY, and told him of her troubles. During the war she had left her old master, Mr. Benjamin F. BARKSDALE, of Danburg, Georgia, and had wandered through Tennessee, until she was weary of such a life, and anxious to return to her "old master." She then inquired at an interior village the direction to Little Washington, and was directed to the ticket office, where a ticket to Washington, D. C. was sold her. This exhausted all her means

Wilkes County, Georgia Newspaper Accounts DIED. WINGFIELD.—On Thursday, June 11, at his late residence, 85 Elm St., Montclair, N. J., John H. WINGFIELD, in the 66th year of his age. Notice of funeral hereafter. Washington, (Ga.) papers please copy. New York, New York, New York Times, 12 June 1896, p. 5. http://giddeon.com/wilkes/newspapers/story0006.shtml