1869 Poll Tax Exemptions
Alexander County NC
The following information was transcribed by James Miller on September 19, 1986, from the Minute Docket Book of the Alexander County Board of Commissioners which can be found in the Register of Deeds Office in the Alexander County courthouse.
The following list of individuals were exempted from paying Poll Tax because of disabilities, some of which may have been from injuries received during the Civil War.
Page 41 Minutes of June 4, 1869 (Board of County Commissioners)
Ordered by the Board that the following persons be exempted from paying Poll Tax for the year 1869.
1. James E. Keever > Disabled hand
2. Hugh Bentley > Wounded Thigh
3. B. F. Steele > Wounded ankle
Page 42 List of Exemptions continued
4. R. W. Sloop > unable to work
5. L. D. Warren > one eye out
6. D. A. Daniels > Lost a Leg
7. David Fox > Disabled Foot
8. Wilson Bowman > Scrofulas Leg
9. Lawson Bowman > Wound in Thigh
10. David Fry > wound in hand
11. Wilson White > (Hemeskof?)
12. Joseph Crouch > Wound in Thigh
13. F, W, Brookshire > Stiff hand
14. S. P. Austin > Wounded arm
15. J. M. Bumgarner > wounded hip
16. R. B. Queen > Wounded hand
17. James O. Lackey > diseased Leg
18. Wm. J. Perlier > wound in neck
19. Solomon Morgan > arm off
20. W, H, H, Lackey > wound in shoulder
21. N. C. Beckham [no disability listed]
22. Julius Templeton [no disability listed]
23. Isaac Price [no disability listed]
24. Wesley H. Lackey > arm off
25. L. R. Gryder > Disabled Leg
26. G. H. Beckman > White Swelling
27. D. L. Sherrill > Sore Leg
28. J. G. Sherrill > Sore Leg
29. D. M. Matheson > arm off
30. J. R. Bell > Sore Breast
31. John Harrington > Leg off
32. R. H. Littleton > Foot wounded
33. M. L. Holler > arm off
34. C. A. Bowman > wounded hip
35. J. R. Lackey > White Swelling
36. J. E. Smith > Wound in hand
37. D. Boon Little > wound in Leg
38. G. W. Little > Blind
39. W. Daniel > Wound in arm
40. J. B. Johnson > Lame Leg
41. R. B. Smith > wound in hand
42. T. J. White > Wound in leg
43. R. D. Stine > Double on his (man?)
44. Isaac Murdock > wound in knee
45. Wm. H. Drum > wound in hip
46. N. I. Deal > Rheumatism
47. Isaac Stafford > wound
48. N. A. Childers > Leg off
49. Riley Heart > arm off
50. W. L. Lackey > wound in arm
[On list but not numbered]
J. F. McLain > arm off
M. C. Chapple [no disability given]
Wm. Sifford [no disability given]
Wilie Crawford [no disability given]