Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jefferson Simmons, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
Jefferson Simmons registered to vote in Freestone County on August 5, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- about 1867
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Jefferson Simmons
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jefferson Simmons
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- August 5, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Simmons in Freestone County
- Abe Simmonsborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1863
- Jerry Simmonsborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1867
Simmonses elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Simmons
- Simons 20
Sources
This entry comes from the 1867 to 1870 Texas voter registration, the Texas Secretary of State registration lists held by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Freestone County's entries fill 45 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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