Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Simon Thurman, Freestone County, Texas, 1869
Simon Thurman registered to vote in Freestone County on November 17, 1869. 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 1853
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Simon Thurman
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Simon Thurman
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- November 17, 1869
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Thurman in Freestone County
- Robert Thurmanborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1867
Thurmans elsewhere in Texas
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. It sits on page 33 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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