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Birthplaces		Last Names
North Carolina	245	Jessee	174
Tennessee	56	Kiser	136
South Carolina	8	Ball	126
Pennsylvania	6	Smith	106
New York	5	Dickenson	103
Ireland	5	Johnson	103
Missouri	4	Williams	103
Maryland	2	Hess	101
Not Known	2	Dye	97
France, Indiana, Illinois, Massachusetts, District of Canida	1	Fields	95
Jobs		Richest People (total wealth)
Farmer	1361	George Gose	239,000
Farm laborer	235	Aaron S. Hendricks	182,330
Laborer	229	Andy F. Hendrick	125,030
Farm hand	218	Charles Carroll	115,800
House keeper	198	Charles A. Smith	114,475
none	51	Dale Carter	108,900
House domestic	50	John T. Smith	103,800
Seamstress	50	John W. Lampkin	95,000
Merchant	25	Henry D. Smith	85,615
Blacksmith	19	Mary J. Smith	68,500

First Names*

Men	Total	Women	Total
John	532	Mary	553
William	509	Nancy	344
James	421	Elizabeth	317
George	215	Sarah	276
Thomas	195	Martha	220
Charles	163	Margaret	212
Henry	157	Eliza	139
Robert	119	Rebecca	125
Samuel	118	Polly	102
Joseph	111	Jane	99

*  According to a citation in Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer, the ten names that occured most on late 18th Century militia muster roles were:  John, William, James, Patrick, Robert, Thomas, Charles, Samuel, Edward, and Joseph.  The almost total lack of Patricks in Russell County(3 occurences) lends weight to the hypothesis that the inhabitants were almost entirely from the North of England and the south of Scotland, rather than from Ireland, as many family legends relate.  However, Edward is another name that appears infrequently in Russell County(27 occurences) and is almost entirely English.