Racial designations changed in the 1880 Hancock Co., TN Mortality Schedule

Racial designations changed in the 1880 Hancock Co., TN Mortality Schedule: "Posted by: kevin mullins (ID *****0358)Date: March 10, 2005 at 15:03:09
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I was going through the 1880 Hancock Co mortality schedule earlier this week, and found something interesting. The racial designation for a few individuals (with familier names)had been written over and changed from the original enumerators' list. I copied the names as best I could, but the microfilm was very hard to read. The write-overs were very obvious though, looks like they may have been written with a pencil or something, as the lines are dark and thick. Here are the individuals, with info copied as best as I could read it;

1880 Hancock Co., TN Mortality Schedule

Page #1, Supervisor's Dist. #1, Enumeration Dist. #88 William Allen, enumerator:

47. William WINKLER, 1 yr old, race changed from 'mu' (mulatto) to 'B' (black), died Nov 1879, Bold Hives?"