Originally transcribed from County records by Rosella Dicks.
From January 14th through April 1st of 1935, a census was
taken in Monroe County of apparently all living individuals over
the age of 21. The heading on this list is "Old Age
Pension", and was taken by township and city. The
purpose of the census is not entirely clear, and if anyone knows
the specific details I would be glad to clarify it here on the
web. It appears to be a list of both potential recipients
and donors of a monetary fund. It was shortly followed by
the introduction of the social security system we have today, and
may, in fact, have been tied to it in some way. In any case
it contains enough potential genealogical information to place
here on the web. The census was not completely
standardized, and the largest town, (Albia), has (address) and (occupation)
information, but no parental information as the other documents.
I have tried to compile the various entries into the same format
i.e.;
Surname, First, Middle,(address),birth, birthplace,(occupation),parents,division of census
Files are divided alphabetically, for page
size limitation, however for the patient soul, the "All"
button will bring to your desktop the entire census (891 Kbytes)
in text format. The advantage to the "All" page
is the ability to search for any surname(including parents) in
the entire pension list. There were no Q or X surnames for
the entire county. Enjoy.
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