Not a query: Rare (for me) United States 1890 census discovery

Question

While the 1890 census was a great loss for genealogists researching in the US, I happily came across a portion that survived: River Bend, Gaston County, North Carolina. I discovered this by accident, and I'm going to have to go page by page to see what I can find as this portion covers an area where many of my family lived.

The format is not like other census records I have seen before. Information was entered by column instead of line. Granted, the information is rather sparse, one family per page and children often not listed. Two pages per family, and the second page is usually blank.

Here is page 1 of River Bend's census in 1890.

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First 1890 census page I have ever seen!  May I ask where you found it?  I wonder if all of it looked like this?

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Dennis, it came up as a source for a profile I was working on. There about 195 pages for this neighborhood, some of them blank.

Answer 1

Wow Pip! I have often dreamed of finding even one of my family units on a surviving 1890 census. Glad you found this and thanks for sharing.

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Found one family that needed this source, Ginny. Several other I recognize that aren’t on WikiTree yet.

Answer 2

Congratulations! What a rarity.

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True that!

Answer 3

@Pip, I started profiles for Edward and Josephine Pegram but the source I copied from the page does not go back to the census.  If you find a better source for a reference please replace what I entered under the source.
Edited later.  I found the correct references and reentered
one that links to the profile.

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Good, Beulah. Glad you found it.

Answer 4

Excellent find Pip!! Those old southern sources can be hard to locate.

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Yes, they can, Laura!

Answer 5

On the topic of that census, the Oklahoma Territorial Census for 1890 survived.  There is a free-to-search index online at the Oklahoma Historical Society -https://www.okhistory.org/research/1890

Copies of individual pages are available for a fee.

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Thank you Jim for this link. It is an easy to use index. I was surprised at the number of people I found listed.

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Jim! Thanks for this. I’ll be perusing it for family.

Answer 6

Fragments have always been available on both Ancestry and FamilySearch. Most that I have seen are very difficult to read.

https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1610551

Answer 7

This is the first I have seen or heard of its existence. I read more than once that the remaining records were all destroyed. It would be great to find a way to confirm if any others exist.