I pulled the information from looking at the scanned census page images as published by Ancestry.com not transcribed census indexes. The county totals were pulled from ancestry by searching for records in St. Clair County Missouri and taking the record counts. These appear to match pretty close to published numbers from the various sources.

The header information listed on those 46 pages lists "Town of Osceola" handwritten by the enumerator. There is 40 lines / people per page on the Federal Census form so the number adds up as the last page is not full.

The Slave Schedule (Federal) lists the owners name and then the slave count and comes with 2 columns per page of 40 each, which makes for 80 individual slaves that can be listed per page. The images are harder to read and I took the tally count by the enumerator from page one. The header indicates "Osceola Township".

Granted the slave numbers may be less accurate, not an unusual state of affairs. I've not looked at the Missouri Slave State schedules, They may give a better count as they were the basis for taxing property in some counties. Some counties did their own slave counts as part of their local tax assesments but those are hard to come by.

I'm not sure what the geographical spread of Osceola was at the time and can't speak as to what the locals of the day considered "town". I do know that looking at the 46 pages I was impressed by the occupations listed eg. tailor, clerk, tavern keep, blacksmith, merchant, lawyer, teacher, wagonmaker, etc... these indicated to me a thriving economic community of diverse services.

The best geographic lay of the land that I've found is the Sanborm Fire Insurance map of the town published 190? and available from MU on line. a point of reference to the tale is the Commercial Hotel. It is clearly shown on the Sanborn map. The Commercial Hotel was built on the site of the Pollard or Union Inn which was burned in the 1861 raid. Pollard had just bought the place and he is listed on the 1860 census as a Tavernkeeper. Courthouse is also shown.

Don't know what else to say ...

John R