Ads in The Sutton News in January 1950

Yost Motors Introduces the 1950 Ford

The Yost Motor Co. ad in the November 17, 1949 issue of The Clay County News introduced the new 1950 Ford car.

Release of the 1950 Census

The 1950 census is available at the government's census archive at:   https://1950census.archives.gov/  accessible at no cost. Read on for some guidance to use the archives.

The 1950 census was released on April 1, 2022, 72 years after the official date of the '50 census. The delay is prescribed by law.

The census is not indexed so can not yet be searched by name, or other data information. Private enterprises, ancestry.com, MyHeritage.com, etc, have teams interpreting the handwriting of the enumerators to build digitized data bases that will be searchable.

In the meantime, the raw data is available at the government archives. At the archives website you can select a state or county and some breakdown within the county. A list of "Enumeration Districts (ED) will appear that are chucks of the county you can browse.

It may be cumbersome to find the ED you need. This website will help: https://stevemorse.org/census/arc1940-1950edmaps.html?year=1940  But be careful to select 1950 then follow the links to maps that are marked with ED names (numbers). For instance, Sutton is divided into ED 18-30 (east of Highway 5) and ED 18-31 (Sutton city - west of Highway 5). (For those under a certain age, Highway 5 was a state highway that went from Highway 41 through downtown Sutton and on to Henderson. Sometime when I was living elsewhere, the state must have taken those signs down and turned the road back to the counties.)

Outside of town, School Creek Township is ED 18-27 and Sutton Township is ED 18-32. 

Grafton Township (Fillmore County) outside of Grafton village is ED 30-21. Grafton village is ED 30-20. 

All Clay County ED's are listed HERE.

Have fun.

1950 Census Enumeration Districts for Clay County

The 1950 Census data will be released on April 1, 2022. Staff at various companies including genealogy websites will begin indexing the date and releasing searchable data bases over the following weeks.

Raw data will be available quicker, accessible by Enumeration District (ED) which you must know to find data by location.

ED's for Clay County data in the 1950 census are as follows:

18-1                 Town of Clay Center
18-2                 Town of Edgar
18-3                 Edgar Twsp
18-4                 Eldorado Twsp
18-5                 Town of Spring Ranch
18-6                 Town of Fairfield
18-7                 Fairfield Twsp
18-8                 Town of Glenvil
18-9                 Glenvil Twsp
18-10               U.S. Naval Ammunition Depot
18-11               Town of Harvard
18-12               Harvard Twsp
18-13               Inland Twsp
18-14               U.S. NAD
18-15               Town of Trumbull
18-16               Leicester Twsp
18-17               Town of Saronville (Lewis Twsp)     
18-18               Town of Saronville (Sutton Twsp)
18-19               Lewis Twsp
19-20               Town of Ong
18-21               Logan Twsp
18-22               Lone Tree Twsp                     
18-23               U.S. NAd
18-24               Lynn Twsp     
18-25               U.S. NAD
18-26               Marshall Twsp           
18-27               School Creek Twsp    
18-28               Sheridan Twsp
18-29               Spring Ranch Twsp
18-30               Town of Sutton (East)
18-31               Town of Sutton (West)
18-32               Sutton Twsp

 

1950s Businesses in Sutton

This ad is from July 1955 when Sutton had four machinery dealerships - Sheridan's Massie Harris, Bauman's Farmall, Smith Brothers Allis Chalmers, and Bender's John Deere.